Barbara
my shopping list as of lately
bananas
avocado
spinach
broccoli
mushrooms
peaches, berries
radish is on sale
kale
salady leafy bits
onion
soy yogurt and soy milk
tofu
maybe feta?
breadsticks
something crispy
oats
anything fun?
mint and/or green tea
On Keeping a Notebook
Joan Didion reflects on the personal and introspective nature of keeping a notebook, delving into memory, self-reflection, and the significance of past experiences.
by Joan Didion
20 highlights
- “Keep coming back. It works if you work it, so work it, because you’re worth it.”
from "Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
- My reason is existential. By writing the things that pop into my head down into my notebook, I teach my brain that those ideas - my ideas - are worthy of being written down at all.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.from "Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
- “You’re not healing to handle the trauma, you know how to do that already. You’re healing to handle the joy.”
from A Big Intimate Catch Up:
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- Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
from Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it
taste
Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.
Steve Jobs, on Microsoft:
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their product.
taste is extremely important
