Every Day I Discover More Things About Myself, Like Maybe I Don't Like Being In A Corporate Job After
every day i discover more things about myself, like maybe i don't like being in a corporate job after working on thousand of pages of accomplishment report, or maybe it's because this is unpaid labor and i'm just money obsessed idk myself honestly
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Quote of the day
i exist, i exist, i exist
@ryebreadgf // holly warburton // ? // image from pinterest // letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
controversial opinion but unfortunately you are your actions and what you say. if you are mean to people, it doesn’t matter if you sometimes have secret kind thoughts. fortunately you are your actions and what you say. if you are kind in your actions and your words, it doesn’t matter if you sometimes have mean thoughts. the power is in working against inner negative thoughts and being a better person despite it. you have the ability to cultivate the person you want to be.
hobbies don’t have to be witnessed to be valid.
please: read, game, run, write, take photos alone. these things and their results don’t always have to be shared; doing them for yourself is good.
do want to share them? that’s good too
I LOVE being alive so I can be mediocre at SO many different hobbies
fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’
[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]
misc readings
On books and reading!
Reading insecurity, katy waldman, slate
The deep space of digital reading, paul la farge, nautilus
The curse of reading and forgetting, ian crouch, new yorker
Why read the classics, italo calvino (pdf)
How reading is like love: italo calvino on the ecstasy of surrendering to other dimensions of experience, the marginalian
Just read the book already, lauren miller, slate
Treasure the books no one else seems to love, molly templeton, tor
Papyralysis, jacob mikanowski, los angeles review of books
How to nurture a personal library, freya howarth, psyche
Brief notes on the art and manner of arranging one's books, georges perec
If I don't remember what I read, did I read it at all? molly templeton, tor
Never do that to a book, anne fadiman, slate
Mary oliver on how reading saved her life and the greatest antidote to sorrow, the marginalian
On the pleasures and solitudes of quiet books, emily st. john mandel, the millions
Being a better online reader, maria konnikova, new yorker
How 11 writers organize their personal libraries, emily temple, literary hub
How many errorrs are in this essay? ed simon, the millions
Adrienne rich on resistance, the liberating power of storytelling, and how reading emancipates, the marginalian
How we read series, wired
Fiction detective: on literary citation and search engine sleuthing, sophie haigney, the drift
our autofiction fixation, jessica winter, the new york times
been thinking a lot about anticipatory grief lately. i love you so much that i know losing you will devastate me. i haven't lost you yet but i already miss you. we still have time, but it won't be enough. i think about what i would say at your funeral, and say some of it to you now cause i need you to know how loved you are before you go. you will go where i cannot follow, but you will never really leave me. it won't make it hurt less but it is a part of healing somehow.
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
