I revisited this lovely little comic this weekend (linked to read in full). It’s a lovely little meditation on keeping on post-flood, and sky full of amazon-drones, and a mass exodus from America. + The print version just feels so good and is brilliantly colored.
Dec 3, 2024
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Religious verses by St Teresa of Avila, among other women, that were written down almost like mosaics on the walls surrounding the cloister garden in the Santa Teresa convent in Arequipa. I visited at the end of 2019 and really connected with some. I have this one on my background “sufre con ánimo igual, ama lo que mas lastima, que las más áspera lima limpia mejor que el metal.”
Nov 1, 2022
i go to a little group therapy sesh every once in a while and they close every meeting with the prayer. i don't ever actually pray during it and i used to write it off as corny, but i'm sitting with it right now and it's just so sweet.
there's so much that we just cannot change and it takes so much to accept that! be loving to yourself and honor the strength it takes to be! just to be!
Apr 16, 2024
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i am not particularly religious but the serenity prayer has always struck me as incredibly sage and powerful. there are variations on the wording but the general idea is:
god grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change what i can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
has gotten me through many tough days
Aug 28, 2024
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No screen Sundays. If I want to listen to music its CDs or radio. If I want to watch a movie, no I don’t. If I want to see a friend, I will make plans with them on Friday or Saturday to meet up. As a result, I read more, write more, and sit with questions like “did Citizen Kane‘s 50 year winning streak in the Sight and Sound critics choice survey end in 2012 or 2022? When did Stephen Merritt come out? Whats the etymology of Whitsun?“
This is something that I have practiced off and on for many years but I’ve been doing it every week since December and I love the way that it just allows me one day of true freedom and rest.
Jan 22, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
My calendar this year has 52 of these week at a glance pages but I don’t think that way. So, I've been inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delighs to start recording the little moments and sensations that bring me joy throughout the day. An analog pi.fyi, if you will.
heres some of what I have so far:
- Waking up to the sound of my upstairs neighbor‘s footstep. It sounded nostalgic. Felt like company.
- Strawberry jam
- feeling tender for strangers: their lips, nail colors, their small wrists. Thinking of all the lives we hold gently.
- A young girl bought an LP at the bookstore just before I left. She stroked its cover with love
- Green tiles —the mint shade always makes me think of Jancie
- Charlie’s little bop and punch dancing to some German language punk
- lunch with Katherine, curry Brussels sprouts
- small talk at the photo studio. The photographer's brother was named after their dad, stole his identity, bought jet skis.
Jan 13, 2025