you can fill the glass of another if yours is empty
Dec 30, 2024
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Accomplished ~nothing~ I wanted to this weekend in favor of quality time with friends and self and that’s A-OK
Nov 3, 2024
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i wanted to cancel all my weekend plans to sit on the couch and eat popcorn, but i decided it'd be better to just fucking go anyway. there's so much time for me to hangout at home alone, i should enjoy the times i can see my friends
Jan 18, 2025
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…and canceling plans when you’re having a mental health time™️. I hate when people flake on me and try to never do it to friends, but sometimes the body knows best.
Oct 3, 2024
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Just finished Being a Chair Essays on Choreographic Poetry by Janne-Camilla Lyster and was blown away by her ability to simplify something as abstract as scoring a dance through poetry. She touches on (bodily) time, dance as a concrete image of another person, and books as tools for inspiration all in under 50 pages. The pieces are split into small prose-poetic musings with a subheading that entice the reader, which include; Forgetting your own name, Time and Space, Hearing a Light, and notably the inspiration for the title — being a chair. Picked this up in Stolkholm when I went over last summer. I hadn’t heard of Varamo Press before so I grabbed the oddly small books. I got another book by them I’ll have to read and see what it’s saying.
Dec 27, 2024
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recently I’ve been listening to Portishead again because it made me think of my art teacher in high school who I thought was super cool and she mentioned she had seen them play in Paris in the 90s and at the time I thought wow I can’t even imagine being in Europe at all I’m now I live in London a place than I wouldnt have thought I’d be back then so I started listening to them again from this other point in life that feels enitrly new and yet somehow completely purposeful It’s not as if I believe in fate or anything like that but listening to Portishead in London holds a little bit of magic to it that I have no other way of expressing so I am listening again and now as I write this ramble here because I am tired of internet spaces that feel chockablock with ads and people who exist to be walking ads themselves as if that made them some how better than normal people People whose Tupperware isn’t made of glass and they have jobs that aren’t glamorous or ”clean” that cannot be done wearing a jacquemus dress attempting to make gummies out of scratch with a voice so soft and monotone that it rides up into you like a spell So I am listening to Portishead which is a different kind of spell a waking up spell and writing this here now and hoping to find a space where people are just people and not ads.
Dec 20, 2024
Just read Writing by Marguerite Duras in one go which is often either a sign of my mental health going haywire or a book being so tantalizingly real and/or inspiring that time goes out the window and I am hooked into every word like a calf to a teat in search of protein I was especially drawn into these reflections about writing a book and what it means to a be a writer A contradiction that is both of the world and seperate from it that is a witness and being witnessed constantly in two phases Highly recommend for writers and readers that love reading writing about writing
Dec 21, 2024