The Standard Blues

The Standard Blues

n.
the dispiriting awareness that the twists and turns of your life feel new and profound but are not unique—marked by the same coming-of-age struggles as millions of others, the same career setbacks, the same family strife, the same learning curve of parenting—which makes even your toughest challenges feel harmless and predictable, just another remake of the same old story.

A riff on blues standards, the catalog of the most popular songs in the blues genre, which is itself famous for chord progressions that cycle through variations on a theme.

The Meantime

Trueholding

Proluctance

Emodox

Indosentia

Apolytus

The Wends

Elsing

Liberosis

Manusia

Wellium

Fitching

Povism

Insoucism

Punt Kick

1202

Desanté

Leidenfreude

Typifice

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Falesia

Keep

Foreclearing

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Caucic

a close-up of a stone walking path

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

The Meantime