J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
to write is human, to edit is divine.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
The sunshine of life springs from twin suns. We may call them love and art. We may call them connection and creativity. Both can take many forms. Both, if they are worth their salt and we ours, ask us to show up as our whole selves. Both are instruments of unselfing.
Maria Popova • Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
Terrible Onlineness
A World In the Grip of a Terrible Onlineness
I’m into ideas over trends, and twists and turns that feel individual and practical. I like things that feel a little trashy or tacky, and I’m embracing a new phase of my style that nods to that. I want to get dressed to feel (here it is again) horny, rich, and lazy. Not brat, not mob, not quiet.
Laurel Pantin • Only Boring People Get Bored
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too,”
True disconnection, like true wilderness, is an empty goal. Whether we have shunned social media or not, the internet does not cease to exist as a driving force in the world, any more than ecological systems cease to shape our lives the minute we reach the end of the forest trail and hop back in the car. The concepts of the “offline world” and the... See more