The Day's Not Over... There's Still Hope For This List.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag

i knew this conceptually, but like you dont really KNOW that public school is designed to set you up to be a good worker bee until you're cracking out a report, after hours, at 7 pm on a monday night and it hits you; oh, i'm doing homework, this is why they made me do homework, and suddenly i'm feeling it in my chest. i cant believe i was raised by the state to be an automaton, and worse, i am one of the lucky robots who isn't doing manual labor.

“Book Alchemy” by Jacqueline Rush Lee

Espresso, flowers and plenty of space to write seems to be all I need at the moment. There’s a lot of anxiety pent up in me about what will happen in the coming months—I’m sure it’s the same for everyone—but I’m trying to channel that into making things. 

Some 20s lingo

I’m always Very Concerned for people who have their mugs precariously balanced on their beds in book photos.

saw this on twitter and i thought i’d share: thestorygraph is a non-amazon-owned alternative to goodreads funded by a black woman. you can export your goodreads library so no need to manually add every book you’ve read

A birthday gift to myself