A quilt made of days

10 things worth sharing: quilting, physics, copying, conversation, owls, and more...

Hey y’all,

Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week: 

1. A quilt made of days.
    

2. I loved physicist Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time, and now I’m reading his Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
    

3. You start out by copying your heroes, but there comes a time in every creative person’s life when you have to get out from under your influences.
    

4. The Warhol estate lost a four-year copyright battle with a photographer. The critic Blake Gopnik says the judges are wrong.
    

5. A case against killing your darlings. (The great question of editing: What to leave in and what to leave out?)
    

6. Documentary: tonight PBS is airing Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. (One of my treasured possessions is a handwritten letter from Dr. Sacks.)
    

7. Podcasts: I talked to Andy J. Pizza for Creative Peptalk. (I say “no” to most podcasts, but for the ones I say “yes” to, I have a policy of candor.)
    

8. Because so many of you kind souls asked, here’s an update on Coconut and Mr. Coconut, the screech owls who live in our yard.
    

9. RIP Giancarlo DiTrapano, founder, editor, and publisher of Tyrant Books.
    

10. Conversation can be awkward these days. I wrote about some alternatives to the question, “How are you?” (Added to my long list of what to say when you don’t know what to say.) 

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Austin