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Jun 18, 2022

this week’s Thought (singular)

spent too long terrified of consequences, scrambling to catch up by rebelling against my self-imposed bed-time

i love creating habits. and schedules and routines, and tangible structure to days that seem endless and nights that seem too short.

breakfast at 8am, lunch at 1pm, dinner at 8pm. in bed by 10:30, asleep by 12. music practice on alternate evenings from 6 to 8. visits to my grandparent’s house every two days. afternoon naps, with the curtain closed just so to keep the sun out. walks at night, listening to playlists specially curated to feel something.

there’s something so comforting about knowing that even if something unexpected were to happen, something that sets everything in your life askew, you’ve always got your every-four-days hair wash to look forward to, and your daily 5pm cup of chai and marie biscuit in the balcony with your mother.

constants in the middle of constant change.

cat licking its paw — Photo by Eric Han on Unsplash

English Recitation Competition

The Mountains in the Desert, Robert Creeley
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Tonight let me go
at last out of whatever
mind I thought to have,
and all the habits of it.
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All the Stones That Built Me, Somto Ihezue

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How do I quell the place that built me?
Set fire to all your bones.

There is no dreaming in this house.
I want to dream that I was old.

The Poet of Ignorance, Anne Sexton

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Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.
It is written on the tablet of destiny
that I am stuck here in this human form.
That being the case
I would like to call attention to my problem.

Middle School Book Review

Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg

sci-fi is never my go-to genre, but i’m glad i picked this up. there are six suns and darkness is so rare that it becomes apocalyptic. so interesting. made me Ponder indeed.

The Good Side of the Internet

Don’t wipe the sweat off your instrument
Captain Beefheart was a musician and singer who, despite little commercial success, captured the hearts of many and influenced a whole raft of performers who followed. His 1969 album, Trout Mask Replica, is regarded a masterpiece by many and sits firmly in numerous “Greatest Album” lists. In 1976, Moris Tepper joined Beefheart’s Magic Band to play guitar—a position he held until Beefheart’s retirement in 1982. It was during this period that Tepper was handed the “Ten Commandments of Guitar Playing,” as written by Beefheart himself.
When art transports us, where do we actually go?
The artwork allows me only to peer as if from a threshold, where I can see inside but never enter. Here we face what I call the paradox of aesthetic immersion: when I’m immersed in artwork, I seem to go somewhere without going anywhere, and I seem to be in two worlds at once, and yet I’m not properly in either. So what kind of ‘travelling’ are we talking about?
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you.