Saturday, June 29, 2013

Saturday morning roundup

Bhutan's hidden refugee crisis.

You've gotta face your history, even especially when it's as awful as the Cultural Revolution.

My bad, having reminded people of the "world's problems", when it's the weekend and people probably want to play golf or something. So tacky of me.

I loved this distinction between healthy and unhealthy narcissism (from Holly Millea's "Mired in Desire," which is not yet online:
"That's healthy narcissism--really wanting those good things that babies demand, which is a person being so happy to see you that he just lights up when you walk in the room. When you don't get enough of that, you get the unhealthy narcissism: being contemptuous of other people, jealous. Health narcissism is [being] happy to be where you are." --Dr. Stephen Snyder, Manhattan sex therapist.
The other Elle article you should read, and which I'll post when it becomes available, is the interview with Nathanael Johnson, in which he talks about finding balance--and thus sanity--in eating well/healthily/naturally. The bottom line is that it shouldn't be all or nothing; your choice is not all kale juice versus all twinkies.

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