# Bird, ‘Embarrassment Has Good Bones’, 2023 > [!cite] > Katie Bird. ‘Embarrassment Has Good Bones: A Comprehensive Venn Diagram of Things That are Terribly Embarrassing and Things That Make Life Worth Living’. *Marrow* (Substack blog), 3 January 2023, https://katielotz.substack.com/p/embarrassment-has-good-bones. --- ‘I am trying to live my life more honestly, which is another way of saying I am preparing to embarrass myself much more.’ [[Bird, ‘Embarrassment Has Good Bones’, 2023|(Bird 2023)]] ^a8250e ‘True embarrassment requires sincerity, vulnerability. True embarrassment keeps you up at night. Unfortunately, in a ridiculously human dichotomy, the risk of embarrassment goes hand in hand with just about anything that makes life worth living.’ [[Bird, ‘Embarrassment Has Good Bones’, 2023|(Bird 2023)]] ‘All of the best things in life require a degree of embarrassment, or at least the possibility of it. Dancing, singing, sharing art, cooking food, having sex, holding hands; there is risk in it all. You could burn dinner or sing off key; no act of self expression or love is exempt from this danger.’ [[Bird, ‘Embarrassment Has Good Bones’, 2023|(Bird 2023)]]