Finally getting through the mystery bug and my mother reminded me that in this liminal space — finding my feet but far from 100% — is where the most important healing happens. I have a jump on it, but I cannot hurry the process, or I’ll just scramble back and forth for the rest of winter. A lesson.
Luigi was like 7 weeks ago. LA fires began only 2.5 weeks ago.
Not to post Advice on main, but the Indiana Jones video game lets you grab an acoustic guitar, smash it on some fascists head then eat some biscotti and that feels a lot better than spinning out online
Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture Speaking at a celebratory rally in Washington, Mr. Musk twice extended his arm out with his palm facing down, drawing comparisons to the Nazi salute.
@nytimes.com doing what they do
I explained it to my mom that the void-public-anonymous-ness of TikTok made it feel like a hometown where even if you don’t know someone you recognize them, have a sense of their lore, etc. and that’s a weird special sauce.
How will (would?) the history books title the two-paragraph sub-section covering the 48 hours leading up to the 74th presidential inauguration of this country? Wrong answers only because right answers will be even harder to conceive of, no?
Someone on NPR is saying that TikTok was honestly built on a structure of social shopping; but we took it and made it a strange beautiful community. And that feels like a reminder that nature will always transcend, even if only in the longest run.
I was on @thebeccamurray.bsky.social ‘s final live for multiple hours during a long layover tonight and it finally bailed on us right as I got to my seat on the plane. What a time to be alive.
"We have to come together as a government and remove the one thing that brings this nation joy. That’s the only way they won’t realize that things could be better."
But then I snorkeled with a sea turtle.
Grateful for the ubiquity of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman as I cry in this mall in Curacao.
- Ethical Lawn Monotony (a cul-de-sac in a leafy township)
- Oedipal Mom Monogamy (when you’re faithful only to your mother)
- Unethical Ron Taxonomy (when you’re dating three guys named Ron, and your friend asks you to rank them)
1. Remember your tools.
2. Walk Slower
3. Consider non-negotiable.
4. Consider every vegetable.
5. Try naps?
6. Individuate effectiveness from efficiency.
7. Want it all.
8. Trust what you have.
9. Embrace time.
10. More Poetry.”
Two years of travel at the very start of January, and twice it has felt like a prolonged liminal space with room for time to go a little wobbly, beginnings to stay malleable, and “resolutions” to emerge. These fell into place on a plane over the ocean.
“Be gentle in your resolve… (1/)
How long will this apartment smell like latkes
Why do I hurry around my own home? What IS that?
How can we stub our toes so, so many times and yet they don’t break every single time?
Are any Jewish astrologers talking about the radical potential of a Capricorn-season Hanukkah this year?