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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'
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I’ve been trying to plan ahead more. I had been mostly working week to week, and decided to try to plan some things across a longer term, like menu planning and monthly spending. I started working on this here at the end of September and it occurred to me
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I’m reading Katherine May’s Wintering, and I’ve found myself thinking about its lessons a lot today. This morning I wrote a recap to sum up my September. It started out rational and coherent and ended full of tears and rage, both the month and the writing session.
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I’ve been trying to reach my mother for the last couple of days. What that really means is that I’ve been dreading calling her, but when I finally muster up the courage the call doesn’t go through for some reason. The staff at the home seem sweet,
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“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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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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“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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My belt broke today. I’m not exactly sure, but I think I got this in high school, making it about 35 years old. I think I’ve worn this belt nearly every day for the past 35 days, and now that it’s broken, I don’t know what
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“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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Actually, I’ve been doing a lot of stuff lately, stuff for me, and it feels really good. I’ve been setting goals, like write and draw every day, and then marking time on the calendar to do them, and then making them high priority reminders. I don’t get
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One theory, said Ivry, is that the region is predicting what’s going to happen in the very near future based on a lifetime of tracking what has worked and what hasn’t in the past and adjusting its movements accordingly. The cerebellum, said Ivry, is a “giant pattern recognition
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“And conscious men now wrote and crossed out and careted and rewrote their compositions in laborious mimesis of the older divine utterances.” Excerpt From: Jaynes, Julian. “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hmhbooks.com), 2000-08-15. Apple Books. Often when I