Derek Brimley

What is your brain doing when you are doing absolutely nothing? A neuroscientist wanted an answer to that question. So she conducted the first brain-imaging study of brain activity when the brain is in a "resting state"—free of inputs/free to wander. The results ... See more

Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not "die" in the winter but quietly prepare for another season

Thinking of this piece the neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote before he died, on how he perceived smartphone use as essentially a neurological catastrophe. He’s advocating for something like the opposite of mindfulness — instead, the problem is that we’re too stuck in the moment. https://t.co/Xm89Bt2jOW

there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.

Cormac McCarthy’s personal library. https://t.co/tsVLmmWQ30