Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
‘I still don’t understand the play.’
‘It doesn’t matter; just keep telling the story.’
(Asteroid City 2023)
The thing about being: a daughter, a mother, a sister, a friend, a girl, a woman — all of it, is that we each come with a unique set of matches, functional only to the experience of another woman. And in some ways, I think we have to light each other on fire to learn how to actually use our matches, to learn that we can also light each other up.
On
... See moreThere is a kind of clock of fertility that many women are aware of, and mine is a kind of Schrödinger’s clock. It is possible, for example, that my clock has already run out, and it is too late for me to use my body to make a child. Or it is possible my clock is still ticking along. The fact of my not knowing used to be a thing that plunged me into
... See moreChristina Joyce Hauser • The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
Add your salt to the sea.
(a friend, as I cried at the beach)
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself; cleaning is the act of confronting nature.
(Marie Kondo)
You could theoretically change your life at any moment. Move here, date that person, work on that startup, write that blog, dye your hair, adopt a dog. Should I stay, should I go? I don’t know if this agency is freedom or burden. Perhaps all the best things are both.
Nixtwitter.comIt’s difficult to conceive of art that is more pure than this, though. Functional art that touches a person’s soul whenever they use it. Art that beautifies the everyday.
- The Way of Handmade Things by jemariel
There is something frustratingly Tao about curiosity. (1) It is by following your curiosity that you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But (2) to go there you have to do things that you fear others will think are stupid or embarrassing. That is, you can only find the Tao by not looking for the Tao. By losing... See more
Henrik Karlsson • A Funny Thing About Curiosity
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.