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Several years ago, a lost script for the Andy Griffith Show was discovered. It was found at The Snappy Lunch in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, Andy Griffith’s hometown. Efforts to learn more about this script have proven futile. Calls to people associated with the show have never been returned. Therefore, we have no choice but to run the script and let our readers join us in wondering what might have been. The Death of Helen Crump

Founded by Joshua Boissy and Krystof Zizka, Maison Premiere opened on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in February 2011. Their vision of a bar equally inspired by late-19th-century New York, New Orleans, and Paris continues to draw a devoted cast of regulars, neighborhood locals, and visitors from around the world, and was nominated for the James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar Program in 2014 and 2015 (taking home the prize in 2016).

I was surprised to enjoy The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God by Timothy Keller (with Kathy Keller) so much! But I liked it so much I bought it for a dating couple for Christmas who will be engaged any second now because I think everyone should read it before (and after) marriage. Keller is complementarian and more theologically conservative than I am but I nonetheless resonated greatly with this work.

Recently, a friend was explaining how difficult the past few weeks have been for her. “I’m too sensitive,” she said. “You’re not too sensitive,” I said. “You’re an empath.” But I know what she was really saying was: “this hurts too much.” And what I was saying was: “I know.” So many of us, so many of the caring and big-hearted people I know, are having similar conversations. We’re grappling with how to align our actions with our feelings, at such a fraught time.

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Thinking out loud about crime and statistics. Doing it here b/c, as far as I know, no one has been cancelled on Substack Notes I was thinking about San Francisco and crime statistics. Crime is up, but whenever people mention this, someone jumps in and notes that the murder rate in SF is very “middle-of-the-pack” for large cities This made me wonder why my perception of SF is so bad 🧵

Happy holidays, readers! Kyle here. It’s been a highly rewarding reading year with The Big Read! I gained a lot from our online discussions and I appreciate your comments and insight. As you may already know, I love adaptations and had to watch the 1955 film East of Eden immediately after finishing the book. T… ncG1vNJzZmismJqvqrPRnpidZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9OhoKxll6rGbrXSZqCtZZqWuqa%2FjJ2cmqZdnrtuscCsqw%3D%3D

Mika Westwolf matters In the early morning of March 31, Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman, was walking on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 93, which passes through the Flathead reservation in Montana. Westwolf was struck by a Cadillac Escalade and declared dead at the scene ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbG7z66jmqqZo7Owvsyaq6KnnmS7sMDEaJpmaWZpgXR%2FkWk%3D

"This too shall pass, this too shall pass, this too shall pass." We’ve all heard this before. If you've felt the sting of failure or lived through grief or heartbreak, then you know mantras aren't the cure to your agony. Words alone don’t possess that power. You can't say Je t'aime to a lover who doesn't speak French. Words remain empty unless you give them meaning. There's wisdom in "this too shall pass,"