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He Never Wore an Oura Ring, The Process by Cole Schafer
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“When we optimize our lives, we forget how to live… …And, I’m the worst of us. Honest to God, I’m the worst of us. I’m so concerned with being great—I forget how important it is to be good.”
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Aya C
bell hooks
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11w
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Rachel Hellesto
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
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on my to watch list!
13w
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Russell Hill
The poetry of James Tate
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Kara Brown
For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend
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“In other words -- if you really want to be my friend -- don't / make a labor of it. I'm lazy. Remember.”
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17w
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Hannah Harvey
Nora Ephron’s Wisdom
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this morning’s pep talk
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18w
radical self care
Ginny Branch
Joan Didion’s Packing List
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intriguing in its simplicity. getting ready/packing is something i find challenging (ADHD), even day-to-day, so having a list such as this would probably be life-changing. I can attest to the power of costume—an outfit repeatedly turned to (or iterated) is now symbolic, is now armour, is now “yours”.
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radical self care
SELF CARE AS POLITICAL WARFARE
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Reading Audre Lorde’s work fundamentally changed my life, a claim I’ve made for few other writers. Above and beyond all else, her insistence that radical self care is both necessary for survival and a political act broke my brain in the best way possible. For the first time, I was able to map the connections between my feminist politics, the horrors in the world around me, and my capacity to use anger and grief as vital sources of energy. I’d fallen into the common trap of conflating self-abandonment with martyrdom, and the doughy depths of hopelessness to which it leads. Lorde’s writing is both salve and slap to the face: she snapped me out of that world view in a way no one else has been able to, and then she gave me the strength and courage to change in earnest.
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