Moran said she saw the items that were being broadcast as the "it" items for the next fashion season and was displeased with most of them, especially capes. "[They] make the wearer look like... someone who's had their arms cropped off in a jousting tournament and is inexplicably coy about admitting it in front of their peers," she wrote. She said she always ends by deciding to either stick with what she has, or choosing items that she likes, whether or not they're the popular piece of the year. "When all the fashion editors were on Twitter in August fretting about which coat they were going to for this autumn, I just looked in my coat closet, noticed that my duffel coat was still there, and said, 'Yes. I know which coat I am going for this autumn. The one that I already have.'"
Mark Sappenfield
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.
But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”
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