Things I have consumed
13 smart tips for starting (and sticking to) a new healthy routine this fall
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"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
Didion, Joan. "Introduction".
... See moreVictoria Erickson has a good line on this: “When you’re deeply sensitive, love is ecstasy. Music is godlike. Heartache is a wide, somatic wound. Visual natural beauty is jewel-drenched, wild bliss. Tension and conflict are muscle tightening and toxic, straight down to the cells.” While I know that the sensitivity she describes is actually just an... See more
Molly Mielke • (self) concept
Music is painful to me in the best of times.
-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company
How America Got Obsessed With Protein
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A great work of art is like a dream; for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is never unequivocal. A dream never says: “You ought,” or: “This is the truth.” It presents an image in much the same way as nature allows a plant to grow, and we must draw our own conclusions.
The Science of Motivation
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Why So Many Parents Are Opting Out of Public Schools
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