In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Your depression is a part of you, this vital organ, the shared aortic valve of conjoined twins.
Source: Sara Lippmann, “You and Your Depression” (Maudlin House)
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
When you study a Jewish text and create new meaning out of it, you engage in the most central practice in the Jewish religion.
Source: David A.M. Wilensky, “Getting Drunk on Jewish Texts and Arts at LABA Launch” (J, The Jewish News of Northern California)
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
(The movie veers into science fiction when it features a female editor in chief and a 90s-era Esquire staff filled with people of color.)
Source: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad” (The New York Times)
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
We remind people that just because something is shown on TV, that does not mean it’s a TV show.
Source: Jennifer Weiner, “Politics Is Not a TV Show” (The New York Times)
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Sol was a singular man whose passion for purpose, innate optimism, moral compass, quiet dignity and irrepressible memory proved inspiring to his family, his shul, his museum, and so many others.
Source: “Sol Rosenkranz.”
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Ruined.
Source: “Generations” by Rachel Hall (in Heirlooms: Stories).
Yes, I’ve read this before, many times. But I reread it this week because I was teaching it. And as my students noted, this is a powerful line.