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Seven links to worthwhile thin(g/k)s

Hello dear reader,

This note is being dispatched from a plane — the first one I have been on since early March of 2020, when I was able to squeeze a lovely girls’ trip to Portland, Oregon before the insanity of last year ensued. Symbolically, it seems like marking a definitive endpoint to those crazy months, as I find myself coming full circle being at …