February Prompts for Collective Absurdity

8 prompts for when the only thing that makes sense is nonsense!

A friend told me a story about how recently, at the Cabo San Lucas airport, she watched a woman go feral when told she couldn't bring her snow globe through security.

Reader, tell me a moment more tethered to the inherent hope in humanity than an entire terminal of strangers, collectively, fully trying (and failing) not to laugh.

In the wake of World War I, the Dada movement emerged as a response to the incomprehensible horrors unfolding in real time—they rejected reason, embraced pure nonsense, found radical freedom in the surreal.

I’ve been thinking about absurdity on a smaller scale. Of the connection that comes from watching things unravel….together.

Lately, life has been seeming both too big to process and too specific to ignore. Things feel like they’re spiraling into madness and yet: my friends still text me videos of themselves being idiots in dance workout classes; or pictures of their dog wearing a fur stole; or a detailed timeline of their ex’s lifestyle pivot from financial…