inspiration log
a public diary of mind digestions
art & culture that lingered with me.
why keep an inspiration log
poetry as prayer
recently
reading: essays
reading: books
reading this felt like reading a translation of my life. a fresh, funny story for displaced souls
a distillation of wisdom from 5 different money books (they all say the same things)
the pleasurable experience of reading pachinko — a four generation saga about a korean family in japan.
a book review — a story of two refugees in love — in an unnamed city at war — from the slow & sharp collapse of their normality to a life of constant movement — through doors — that lead them from one world to the next.
I made a personal hierarchy to help me reflect on my different relationships to books.
listening to: podcasts
inspired questions on anxiety, channeling, and embodiment
I’m starting a habit of compiling my highlighted notes for everything I absorb — to slowly grow my inspiration library.
I listened to this on being interview with ocean vuong yesterday — and I loved the way he talked about language as its own spoken body — moving and breathing in space — and of course, the body as its own language.
to see language as its own body is to say:
(1) language is a living thing. language breathes. language dies. language lives in movement, in air, in change — across time and space. the air itself is a vessel for language, especially when it is spoken.
watching: films
my review/analysis of The Disciple (2020) — a film about the journey of an Indian classical vocalist — as a portrait and guide for how NOT to be a struggling artist.
my digestions of Jordan Peele’s 2022 film, Nope — on alien-monster as metaphor, and a spectacle culture to kill us all
watching: TV series
first impressions of an emotional experience without words
my review of DP — which I binged in a weekend — about a deserter pursuit unit in korean military service, and the system’s abuses of power.
my review of a wonderfuly complex yet light-hearted korean drama about an autistic lawyer and her trials & tribulations (season 1)
listening: music & obsession songs
tarot
embracing the cycles of change with a sharp, discerning mind
using psychic diving + containment to channel fire energy into material fruition