Joel Cuthbert

Chasing after wonder in art, music, and film. Expect profanities followed by profundity. host low-pace radio c/o the Stillness & the Dancing. man of letters.

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

I walk with the symbol of peace held at my back, as in a talisman to ward off the inevitability of heartbreak 934

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

As I'm facing a fresh cancer season I've set up a GoFundMe. Please share, support, or donate as you are able! https://t.co/WXeV5w07bA

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

"And so love is greater than knowledge; how could I have forgotten?" Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

Poetics in textbooks:

"Becker writes from an American context where gender roles might be less adventurous than, for instance, in the Nordic countries [with the]... highest level of gender equality in the world."

Could we not all do with being a bit more adventurous?

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

"Grief, in love's loss and ever-present longing, stays with me, a place where encouragement might bolster and direct me. I write with an exaggerated pen, attempting to say the thing, how to get one's heart out of one's chest." - Jan 24th. I guess valentine will have his day.

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

Sorry to have to say, but it's been uphill all the way.

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

There is something profoundly complex about the modern experience of watching a YUUBTUUB video about the history of romanticism in art and literature (distilled into a cool 10 minutes) that is interrupted by a combustible trailer for SONIC 3.

this is the age

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

Just descended the ole CN Tower in Toronto and got off the elevator to the sound of @davidbazan singing Yellow Bike.. hope you get some of that sweet tourist money...!

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

Just writing this here as a reminder to myself, but thus far in my life almost every thing that has happened to me was not quite what I expected. And yet somehow, I continue 1136

[love drops @lovedropx]

— James Baldwin.

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

In these trying times do not forget the currency of kindness, it can settle insurmountable debts, or at the least provoke humanity in the hardened heart. An olive branch in word or gesture is an oasis in the desert. 137

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

I just wrote that I feel "caught in the throat of the world"... which various dictionaries define as either the quickening sensation of emotions or of a feeling that is unable to be expressed. Here we all are, held in like a breath, growing weak.

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

@PhilCotnoir Oof... Lord have mercy

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

"A recent study with humans has shown that a statistically significant number of individuals prefer to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone in an empty room with nothing to do but to think (Wilson et al., 2014)." Gomez-Ramirez & Costa on Boredom

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

"The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days." Flannery O'Connor from her essay: the Nature and Aim of Fiction

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

Me in school these days: "Please don't crush my soul with your bizarrely worded multiple-choice tests..."

What is education? I'm perpetually confounded.

(And, I suppose, reasonably successful, despite feeling continually punched in the spirit.)

Blessed are

#midtermblues

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

The sound of rainfall in the evening, autumn comes not only in sights but also smells and sounds. 959

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

@mattjrobertshaw *trumpet blast*

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

I'm working on an idea for a new dating app. It's kinda like Bumble but also kinda like Hinge. It's gonna be called Humble.

That's all I've got so far but I can't wait to use it.

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

At the edge of the river, sitting in silence, in sunlight, and hear snippets of conversation carried along the water's surface. Like a tuning of the radio's dial, unexpected melodies form harmonies as their sounds collide and conspire 236

[Joel Cuthbert @joelpcuthbert]

Shout out to whoever invented toast. I mean honestly, I'm sorry no one bothered to remember who you were... unless your name is in fact "toast"... then... a toast? To toast!