photograph by Cristian Escobar

Beauty as a Handhold

Savala Nolan
4 min readJul 22, 2023

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Listen. This is a different kind of post, because I just need some beauty, some reprieve. It has been a long few weeks. So, last night, at the dinner table, my daughter and I ate hot dogs and listed beautiful things. She had many. I had to think more; we can call this the result of life experience. After she went to bed I decided to think about beautiful things and pick one to write about. Not as a distraction from the sadness and worry I feel. But…

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Savala Nolan

uc berkeley law professor and essayist @ vogue, time, harper’s, NYT, NPR, and more | Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins | she/her | IG @notquitebeyonce