Finished reading: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚
Finished reading: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚
I really enjoyed this book. If you like apocalyptic end-of-the-world stories, this is a good one. It’s a simple book, but well written with good character building. It was a book I thought about when I wasn’t reading it and made extra time to get back to it.
Watched: A House of Dynamite 🍿
I really enjoyed this; it meshes very closely with the book “Nuclear War” by Annie Jacobsen, to the extent that I initially thought it was based on the book. It’s not.
For a more in-depth, factual exploration of this subject, I highly recommend the book.
Finished reading: Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen 📚
Perhaps it’s time for everyone to revisit the magnitude of nuclear war…
Read this in two sittings. I couldn’t stop reading it. It both fascinated me and scared the living shit out of me at the same time. A must-read for everyone.
I really enjoyed this documentary. If you even have a small adventurous bone in your body, you’ll enjoy it.
I had a difficult time finding it online, but was eventually able to rent/purchase it through Vimeo.
Finished reading: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton 📚
I LOVED this book. I was not happy at all that it came to an end. I wanted the book to continue, for much longer. For the whole life of this beautiful relationship between a wild hare and an amazing writer. Thank you Chloe Dalton for writing this book. I will think about this book for many years to come.
Finished reading: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
If you haven’t read this before, I recommend the 50th Anniversary edition with the introduction by David Mitchell and the Afterword by Charlie Jane Anders. Beautiful work with a deep message.
Notes from the series "The Eightfold Path".
My personal notes from listening to the first episode of the Waking Up app series “The Eightfold Path” with Dan Harris, Joseph Goldstein, and Sam Harris.
Scratch Pad Thoughts
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Love the life you have, with the stuff you have, and try to improve it a little bit each day.
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Take pictures of everything.
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Tell your friends and family that you love them.
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Talk to random strangers, connect with people, even just for a few minutes. You may brighten their day, and yours.
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Do something you are scared to do. Start small and work up to “No Fucking Way, I’m doing that” kind of stuff.
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Declutter both physically and mentally. Give something away. Clean up that pile of papers on your desk.
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Read a book with your phone on silent.
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If you want to buy something, put it in your cart and wait a day or two. Then, ask yourself, Will this still be useful in three months? Will this bring happiness? Is this thing worth going to work for?
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You can skip the pursuit of happiness altogether and just be happy.
** None of these cornerstone ideas are truly my own; I’ve read/seen them before, thought about them, changed the wording to fit my life. Try to do the same, make them your own. Write your own versions and look at them daily for a few weeks over coffee. Tweak, read, think, tweak again until they are just right for you.
From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend
Reading for pleasure among Americans has seen a significant decline of 40% over the past two decades.
Finished reading: Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall 📚
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Donald Hall is an outstanding writer, he may not write poetry anymore but he is still a word-smith. He made me laugh, tear up, and nod my head in understanding at many of his stories.
Finished reading: A Marriage At Sea by Sophie Elmhirst 📚
Really enjoyed the story, if you like survival stories, you’ll like this one.
I learned about this website from Ed Young’s Newsletter. I think everyone in the U.S. needs to see it.
About The Website Unbreaking:
The United States is experiencing institutional collapse at a speed and scale that are difficult to understand, especially through feeds and updates that atomize our attention. We believe that mapping the damage done and its human costs—and the pushback and resilience work already underway—is necessary groundwork for building and retaining political agency.