I have chosen to live this way, to live near the sea without running water, to surround myself with simple beauty. My days have been emptied of all fanfare and complication.
Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, Joseph Monninger meditates on life, death, and beauty from his small seaside cottage for Down East.
Speaking of Longreads (see the post below), Longreads.com has released their best of 2024, which is broken into numerous categories. They always compile the best best-of list of the year:
Longreads
I hate linking to Bloomberg, but I do appreciate their annual Jealousy list, wherein their reporters list the articles published at other outlets that they themselves wish they'd written.
Here's the 2024 Jealousy List. Previous years have archive links on the page.
