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I Do Not Keep a Diary | Will Rees
astra-mag.com/articles/i-do-not-keep-a-diary/ A wonderful sentence, I feel like the mention of suicide is just a nice little splash of pepper, but then the structure of the sentence is really well done, too.
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I Do Not Keep a Diary | Will Rees
astra-mag.com/articles/i-do-not-keep-a-diary/ I journal daily, hourly even. I blog my life in my journal. But yes, the voice is hard, it's just like trying to figure out the voice that I'll be for the blog. When it's professional writing, or fiction, you
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Killing Time
Killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. --Miguel de Unamuno
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The Voice
“Our understanding of eternity is the voice of God who lives within us.” Literally lives within our bicameral brains. Excerpt From: Tolstoy, Leo. “A Calendar of Wisdom.” Scribner, 2010-05-11. Apple Books.
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unselfing.social
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It’s How You Carry It
“The burden, the cross, which every man has to carry exists on two planes: a longer vertical plane, which is the will of God; and a much shorter, horizontal plane, which is a man’s own will. If you orient your will so that it parallels the direction of God’
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This restlessly beating heart
katherinemay.substack.com/p/this-restlessly-beating-heart Wonderful meditation on birth, life, and death from the always wonderful Katherine May. Did not expect to think so early in the morning. I love her prose, her voice. The line about her father fluttering against the window is simply brilliant.
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On Small Seasons and Long Calendars – Ross Zurowski
rosszurowski.com/log/2018/small-seasons-long-calendars I thought this was pretty interesting. I've been meaning to go through my photos anyway, but I couldn't really think of a decent "phase" for what's been happening lately. I ended up making an album for Spring
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Reflections on The Past
“The kind of material we write in diaries and letters does not exist before it is written down.” It’s not just recounting the past, but infusing the past with your personal experience. Your experience can only be recorded by you. Excerpt From: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. “Flow.” HarperCollins. Apple Books.
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Thought Involved in Writing
“It is the slow, organically growing process of thought involved in writing that lets the ideas emerge in the first place.” It’s not just the voice springing up from the depths, and it’s not just the conscious intention of the editor, but somewhere in the tension created by
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Look. Look. *Look*. - by Mike Sowden
everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/look-look-look This is actually what I did when I drove cab in Iowa City. Admittedly, Iowa City is a postage stamp compared to London, but I'd only been in town for two weeks before I got a job driving cab. This was way before
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Aren’t we all a little bit on the spectrum? – Undercover Autism
No – we’re not. But we do share some experiences and behaviours. There is plenty of stuff about autism that is relatable to people who aren’t autistic. That’s why I enjoy using analogies to share my experiences. — Read on undercoverautism.org/2020/07/01/arent-we-all-a-little-bit-on-the-spectrum/