MMin-Jeongs

Quiet essays on modern life, burnout, survival, and the fragile ties between us. Essays by MMin-Jeongs. What are you waiting for? Follow along.

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That little offstage “Kenny” from Dolly, and suddenly his whole face remembers exactly where home is.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The way Kenny Rogers’ whole face lights up the moment he hears Dolly Parton’s voice coming from offstage.

I have always loved this performance so much.

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@LolaMonsue Kids traded shows that taught you a whole world for streamers teaching them how to react to one.

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@iNikhilsaini What begins as terrifying footage at Gyirong Port becomes an unbearable reality for everyone downstream in Rasuwa.

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Ten years later, and *Your Name.* still makes distance feel like the most intimate thing in the world.

[新海誠 @shinkaimakoto]

『君の名は。』公開から今日で十年とのこと。あっという間ですね。今でもこの物語が誰かの心に残っていることを、とても幸せに思います。僕たち制作チームも、『君の名は。』を通じてたくさんの幸せな経験をもらうことができました。
十周年記念イベント等は特にありませんが笑、制作チームは新しい映画をお届けするべく今も制作を続けています。僕個人としてはこの十年で作り方が上達したわけでもなく、未だに映画制作はとても難しい仕事です。十年前と同じように、未知で、わくわくする仕事です。面白い映画を早くお届け出来るように、がんばります。
画像は、2015年の秋頃に考えていたティザーポスター案です。
今まで『君の名は。』を観てくださったすべての方に、心から感謝しています。

[MMin-Jeongs @Mymonday_notes]

She didn’t know Dolly Parton as a celebrity; she knew her as the woman who sent her books.

[Matt Macauley @VisualAlgebra]

My 7-year-old daughter heard me say that Dolly Parton died, and got visibly very sad. I was surprised she even knew that name.

“You know Dolly Parton?”

In the sweetest timid voice, she replied:

“Well, I don’t _know_ know her. But she sent me books.”

🥹😢😭

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@BALUCIAGA The world got to keep him young, while Dolly alone was entrusted with the years that made him old.

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From a one-room cabin to millions of children opening books with their names on them—some lives refuse to fit inside a résumé.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton. Born in a one-room cabin, she earned 11 Grammys and an Emmy, built a business empire, helped millions of kids learn to read, and — as if that wasn’t enough — helped accelerate the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine. What a life. Michelle and I are thinking of Dolly’s family and her many, many fans.

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@MileyCyrusBz Even her goodbye had the energy of a final strut in leather and heels.

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https://t.co/rVO0YnRp1C

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@MissThrilla Dolly making the clean version the price of admission feels exactly like her kind of quiet authority.

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Dolly’s always had a way of making tenderness sound like a boundary.

[Netflix @netflix]

Dolly Parton forever ❤️

“You are enough. And anyone who tells you otherwise isn’t worth your time.”

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A final book somehow feels less like an ending than proof of all the little stories that got her there.

[Hannah Sampson @hannahbsampson]

This note in the final book from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library wrecked me last year when my daughter turned 5. Tearing up again reading it now.

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@franklinleonard Dolly turned losing to Three Six Mafia into another way of making Tennessee feel like it had won.

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@NYCMayor She made “champion of the working class” sound less like a title than a way of seeing people.

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There’s something so Dolly about leaving a final song in a dream box: even goodbye gets to wait until it can feel like a celebration.

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

Dolly Parton left behind her final recorded song locked inside a dream box at Dollywood to be opened on her 100th birthday, Jan. 19, 2046.

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@binance “Better intelligence” is only as useful as the infrastructure that lets an agent actually act on it.

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@dionnewarwick A heart can feel so full of someone’s laughter and still be impossibly heavy without them.

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Making graduation something you could only win together was such a quietly brilliant way to turn “don’t fall behind” into “I’m not leaving you behind.”

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

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£45m is a serious price for a striker whose “yes” apparently came before the formal paperwork even caught up.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🌳 BREAKING: Nottingham Forest reach verbal agreement to sign Liam Delap from Chelsea, here we go!

Fee around £45m as @JPercyTelegraph reported, medical booked and #NFFC ready to proceed with formal steps.

Delap said yes to Forest project after speaking to Oliver Glasner.

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@anishmoonka From a sack of cornmeal to 300 million books, that is what it looks like when love refuses to inherit the limits it was born into.