Julie
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Julie
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live... See more
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art.
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear
Free time is the product of the capitalist system, therefore not really free because owned by the boss class.
The famous misprint from Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 book, “The medium is the Massage”, may actually be revelatory. Online linguistic collisions and their downstream cultural effects can be remediated by physical touch.
Not only do we thrive under touch, we physically need it. Cultures where physical affection toward infants was high had low levels of... See more
Not only do we thrive under touch, we physically need it. Cultures where physical affection toward infants was high had low levels of... See more
Rue Yi • The Balkanization and Babelification of the Internet
The most authentic, fleshed out, truly female-centered narratives (e.g. Little Women and My Brilliant Friend) all include Time as a main character.
Women exist in cycles, phases, periods, seasons. A snapshot in time of a woman is not what she once was or what she will be. We are maidens, mothers, and matriarchs. We... See more
Kyrasubstack.comNot only do we thrive under touch, we physically need it. Cultures where physical affection toward infants was high had low levels of adult aggression, but cultures where affectionate touch was low had high adult aggression.
Rue Yi • The Balkanization and Babelification of the Internet
it’s hard to make friends when you’re playing it cool, be the freak
The self is not a destination; it’s a lifelong draft, a slow burn, a soft becoming.
the slow burn of becoming yourself
Even if you know what it feels like to be completely open to where your curiosity wants you to go, like Grothendieck, it is a fragile state. It often takes considerable work to keep the creative state from collapsing, especially as your work becomes successful and the social expectations mount. When I listen to interviews with creative people or
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