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Mar 26, 2024

wandavision: alternate realities of love and grief

Mar 26, 2024

Mar 18, 2024

tarot work diary no. 7 | queen of cups, seven of pentacles, knight of wands

Mar 18, 2024

Mar 15, 2024

anxiety & comedy: emma stone and mark ruffalo - fresh air podcast

Mar 15, 2024

reading: essays

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Mar 13, 2024

the red pill, blue pill of platform marketing - tara mcmullin

Mar 13, 2024

the lie and alternative to platforms

Mar 13, 2024

reading: books

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Jul 28, 2023

reading notes | a concise chinese-english dictionary for lovers - by xiaolu guo

Jul 28, 2023

reading this felt like reading a translation of my life. a fresh, funny story for displaced souls

Jul 28, 2023

Jun 14, 2023

what I learned from 5 money books, distilled

Jun 14, 2023

a distillation of wisdom from 5 different money books (they all say the same things)

Jun 14, 2023

Nov 25, 2022

pachinko by min jin lee | a bittersweet, rich layer cake

Nov 25, 2022

the pleasurable experience of reading pachinko — a four generation saga about a korean family in japan.

Nov 25, 2022

Jul 14, 2021

book notes: exit west by mohsin hamid

Jul 14, 2021

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.

Jul 14, 2021

Oct 23, 2019

a personal hierarchy of books

Oct 23, 2019

I made a personal hierarchy to help me reflect on my different relationships to books.

Oct 23, 2019

listening to: podcasts

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Mar 15, 2024

anxiety & comedy: emma stone and mark ruffalo - fresh air podcast

Mar 15, 2024

inspired questions on anxiety, channeling, and embodiment

Mar 15, 2024

Mar 28, 2021

ocean vuong interview & language as body

Mar 28, 2021

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.

Mar 28, 2021

watching: films

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Jul 11, 2023

the disciple (2020) film review | analysis of a struggling artist

Jul 11, 2023

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.

Jul 11, 2023