Kasturi Kiri
@shoesatthe_door
Kasturi Kiri
Projects have been filed, things are being read and re-read, the work seems to be going vaguely in the right direction. I should be happy, or at least satisfied! But I am not! The only thing that has defined this period is a vague, indiscriminate ennui that pervades everything. It’s like I’ve been pouring myself into a vessel that’s too small. Or... See more
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
You might not be pouring your energy into the right thing.
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
A memory is not a singular event, but a trail of associations.
Always work (note, write) from your own interest, never from what you think you should be noting or writing. Trust your own interest.
Petya K. Grady • Issue 104: The Reading Life of... Celine Nguyen
Focus on what interests you, not what others expect of you
Mindy Seu on Phoebe Lovatt’s Deep Read podcast
Care Doesn’t Scale
stevenscrawls.com • Care Doesn’t Scale
In Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986), Le Guin posits the first human tool as the basket, not the spear, thereby recasting the first protagonist as a gatherer, not a hunter. Not only did this address the deeply gendered roles of these two parts, it also changed the singular hero to the plural collective, from he to we. “Before... See more
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
‘Gathering’ is a useful and powerful tool.
It generates community.
The absence of shame makes trying —to do something new, change how you usually act in a difficult moment, cultivate a practice or ongoing habit that has so far eluded you—less terrifying.
Because shame often comes from fearing failure or actually failing, and then feeling as if the failure has something important to say.
Because shame often comes from fearing failure or actually failing, and then feeling as if the failure has something important to say.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Failure does not have something important to say