a library of thoughts
essays , short stories, and research
a library of thoughts
I felt, as I was growing up, that there were so many profoundly broken things inside of me, that there is no way that I could ever fully love or be loved
Yeah this feels like me
Even with the purest inputs, the mind can only funnel so much. Excess is not only ineffective, but harmful. Spilling oil is a bloody mess4.
Literature is loaded with characters who laboured endlessly in their libraries to become learned, but were ultimately unfunctional and incomplete individuals. Mr. Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice spent his afternoons locked in his oak office, preferring the company of Walt Whitman to his wife, calm and content, while his household descen... See more
Aim to revisit this whole series, I love the idea of a series of essays.
We vastly underestimate how much depth we actually hold. Give yourself more credit. You’re far more complex than an Instagram post of curated highlights or a Substack essay summarizing a controversial take. Sharing your life online a bit more isn’t going to put a target on your back—people are too caught up in their own lives to scrutinize yours th... See more
Four rules worth recalling- a creative architecture which I admire.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
— Annie Dillard, ’The Writing Life’, 1989