Kasturi Kiri
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Kasturi Kiri
‘...she takes a stiff-bristled brush and loads it with a dark greenish-brown, the colour of first shade, and with sweeping movements, she covers the image with darkness, obliterating the lovers, sealing them inside a tomb of paint...it is all gone, hidden for ever, the only sign the scene was ever there the slight undulations in the paint’s... See more
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
From Maggie O’ Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait, describing Lucrezia painting over her paintings
[Persistent self-love]...is not the feeling that I am awesome all the time. Instead, it is the total banishment of self-loathing. It is the deactivation of the part of my mind that used to attack itself...It’s the sense that, while I might fuck up, my basic worth is beyond question—I have no essential damage, I am not polluted, I am fine.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Self love means you don’t question your basic worth.
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results...Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.3
Celine Nguyen • In Praise of Writing on the Internet
Outcomes/success often lags behind your daily actions… be patient
Mindy Seu on Phoebe Lovatt’s Deep Read podcast
I have only one more idea left.. but perhaps 40, 45 years to live.. I need to spread it very finely... like buttering a star —
Philip Traylen on Substack
Agua Viva vibes
The inundation of information on the internet means meaningful ideas get lost.
Creation can just be editing