Molly Simpson
@spagmol
Spaghetti-brained.
Googly-eyed.
Heart-first.
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
Instead, we might see stories as:
“living entities that emerge from and move things in the world. Some of these stories are meant to exist for a long time, others expire early. Some stories are meant to remain as and where they are and to work only with a very select group of people; other stories are meant to travel the world, and to transform and to be transformed by other world-entities … Sometimes [these stories] will hide somewhere in your body, perhaps close to a song that already lives there, and wait for the right time to dance with you.”
Modern Art by Craig Damrauer
One of the tricks to living fully is not so much to lengthen your life as to deepen your life. How can you deepen the time that you have?
(paraphrasing Alain de Botton)
We are forced to pick a singular lane and consistently craft our personal brand, package ourselves into a product and appease the repetitive, insatiable appetite of the algorithm. If we do this successfully, we can grow our audience and reap the rewards of financial and social capital.
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Nick Susi • The Multitudes of Self
The ideal of total autonomy and permanent essence depends on the process of constant self-reinvention.
from Emily Wilson’s Odyssey
So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
what if we defined our life purpose as a way of being?
... See moreTo enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can’t. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics.
Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.
—Jorge Wagensberg
... See moreAnnie Dillard calls the writer’s life colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. That fits. But, as she also knows, there is another kind of color that can only be discovered three years down a writing hole. It is a subtle, nightly color; your eyes need time to adjust to the dark before you can see them. You wouldn't believe their beauty if I t