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“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I
... See moreEloghosa Osunde • A Long Talk: conversation between Eloghosa Osunde & Joshua Segun-Lean.
enjoy your bondage. Your bondage to this body, to other bodies around you, and to the fire and the ash and the water and the wind. That is all, really, you have—that, and the nameless beyond.
Sasha Chapin • This Post Not Sponsored By Unbound Merino
2026 should be the year that you spend more time doing what you want. The new year should be the moment we commit to dedicating more of our finite hours on the planet to things we genuinely, deeply enjoy doing – to the activities that seize our interest, and that make us feel vibrantly alive. This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn... See more
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliverburkeman • The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think …
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight... See more
Johnny Rodgers
Now the books lying all over the house, books I have started and will probably never finish, are signs not of fickleness but of a robust indifference to societal norms. Now I am no malingerer, but rather a champion of the erotics of art.
Michel Chaouli: "Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?"
It’s worth reading the entire HBR post. I cannot help but infer that we are lonely and are growing more lonely as we spend so much time glued to our devices.
The real practice of the artist is a way of being in the world. I always had assumed that it was, it was about doing things a certain way is what an artist was. But it’s more than that. Yes, there is an aspect of it that’s about doing things a particular way and in a considered way. But the only way to do things in a considered way is to live in a
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