Read Something Wonderful: Self-Respect, Fast, Diamond, Elephants, Sweat, Stay in the Game
Welcome to a new issue of Words That Matter! This week, in lieu of a guest curator, we’re sharing ten pieces from Read Something Wonderful, a curation website/passion project made by the Matter team to showcase timeless internet writing. If you like this format, please ♥︎ the post so we know to do it again. And if something catches your eye but you don’t have time to read it now, save it to Matter. That’s what it’s for. :)
On Self-Respect
Joan Didion | Vogue | 1961
Fast
I should have loved biology
James Somers
Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
Edward Jay Epstein | The Atlantic | 1982
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
Simon Sarris | 2021
Do Elephants Have Souls?
Caitrin Keiper | 2013
What’s going on here, with this human?
Sweat Bathing and the Body
Mikkel Aaland | 1978
Stay in the Game
Drew Dickson
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
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