between optimism and cynicism: a third way
Rose-colored glasses force a happy ending. Greyscale glasses expect the worst. Both disconnect you from reality. What I found instead gave me more power over my life, not less, but it required letting go of the one thing I thought gave me control.
constraint is not a cage
I have a million ideas and want to pursue them all... and that's my biggest problem.
For years, I thought keeping all my options open was freedom, but it turns out, refusing to choose hasn't been keeping me free; it's been keeping me trapped.
the life of Sir Hopkins
The number of books in my digital library that have been started but not finished is too numerous to count. But when the rare text with the capacity to hold my attention wanders
visa-funded wisdom
I bought a full year of Masterclass a few days ago, purely for the David Sedaris class on storytelling and humor. I figured, if I didn’t watch anything else the whole year,
on becoming an old asian lady
A few specific smells and sounds are quintessentially Bali to me. Wafting incense, bonfires (of burning trash), temple chanting, and rake brooming. The latter I used to associate specifically with little old Asian