Anne Carson Come Here. Did You Ever Find Out Where You Could Put It Down

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre

Bread & Water Printshop does a truism of the month shirt & I’m obsessed with this month’s shirt!!

saw a woman comforting her sobbing child saying “i already told you, you have to keep looking forward, looking back just gets you hurt” and i thought she was sharing a beautiful life lesson about the importance of letting go of regret and resentment. but it turns out the kid just wasn’t looking where he was going and ran into a wall

the past is the past. leave it there. leave it there. LEAVE IT THERE.

might as well

"what if things were different" is a poisoned well and drinking from it will kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2025

you are allowed to have a moment to think before you speak

terrifying sincerity will demand from you the kind of composure and character you are seeking

practice asking yourself questions and answer them without seeking references or resources or answers that others gave

the difference between ritual and routine is faith, and the kind of faith you need to give to your habits—what they each mean to you— is something to be curious, reflective, intentional about. you are afraid that habits will sap your life of meaning, so give them meaning of their own

Lila (divine play)

novelty & magic are rivers, not reservoirs

What Remains, Hannah Arendt

Maggie Smith, from “Slipper”, Goldenrod