You boarded, you set sail, you've made the passage. Time to disembark. If it's for another life, well, there's nowhere without gods on that side either. If to nothingness, then you no longer have to put up with pain and pleasure, or go on dancing attendance on this battered crate, your body—so much inferior to that which serves it.
One is mind and spirit, the other earth and garbage.
We must create islands of sanity and human flourishing in the flooded cultural zones. We need our own equivalents of Noah’s Ark.
4w ago
jamesclear.com
"Trust in yourself is not only built through successful repetitions, but also through failed ones. When you have worked through failures in the past, you fear them less in the future. You know you can bounce back. Successful repetitions build competence. Failed repetitions build resilience."
“I’m still here talking at this table. So we’re lucky.”
1mo ago
nytimes.com
Reading was the first stop on Hole’s Live Through This Tour, just 10 weeks after the band’s original bass player, Kristen Pfaff, died of an overdose. Auf der Maur, then 22, had barely seven days of rehearsal. Naïvely — or sagely — her complete stage prep consisted of swiping on “a browny mauve matte MAC lipstick.”
2mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
