i got so much joy from playing hacky sack with homies all through my high school years feeling the pull to start hacking the sack again
you can just do things (be there for your friends when they're going through hell)
you can just do things (write a ton of haikus as part of your marketing strategy)
dr. cringelove, or how i learned to stop worrying and love my shitty first drafts
you can just do things (leave your phone inside while you sit out on the balcony drinking coffee and reading fiction on sunday morning while your cat watches birds)
you can just do things (press your ear to your cat's body and let his purrs reverberate through your entire being)
wow you guys this book is so crazy. i can't believe no one around here has ever talked about it before
you can just do things (rebound from a very difficult day where you shame spiraled into a bunch of unhealthy choices, but today you're being gentle and compassionate and doing a bunch of good shit to take care of yourself)
maybe the real "second brain" is all the friends we made along the way
living one day at a time enjoying one moment at a time accepting hardships as the pathway to peace
the poster child for enshittification has to be the "gas buddy" app. remember using it like 10 years ago and being like "wow this is so simple and useful!" downloaded it again this week cuz there are very few diesel stations near me, and holy fuck you guys it's so bad
told my mexican friend that i love beans and keep a 15 pound bag of pinto beans in my pantry and he said that makes me an honorary brown person
while out rucking this morning, i encountered some lil goat buddies standing on a log 10/10 peak experience
trying something new this week. gonna host a writing circle where we gather on zoom and write together, but we're gonna pretend that keyboards haven't been invented yet. handwriting ftw!! come join me on thursday? luma.com/9rpdcv6o
handwriting club · Luma
get in losers, we're gonna spend an hour writing together... BY HAND
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you can just do things (subtly skewer silicon valley's obsession with "agency" by pointing out small, seemingly trivial activities you can do that are rich with the very marrow of life if you pay close enough attention)
you can just do things (write out your favorite poem by hand, speak it out loud, memorize it completely, let it take root in the depths of you)
"meaning-shaped attention vampires that take mental effort to decode and give you no equivalent understanding in return" is a fucking great description of how ai writing feels to me if i get even a faint whiff of text being ai, i immediately stop reading
stumbled across this app that sends you poems randomly throughout the day. enjoying the heck out of it so far sometimes.deftmag.com/
Sometimes: A Poem Arrives | Poetry App for iPhone and iPad
A poetry app for iPhone and iPad. Sometimes delivers poems by time, weather, and season, with widgets, favorites, archive, and quiet notifications.
sometimes.deftmag.com
you can just do things (dial it back on the sriracha usage, because you've been eating a ton of it lately and you're pretty sure that's why your tummy hurts)
increasingly more interested in having wondrous encounters with life instead of classifying it and closing it down into tidy little concepts so i can feel some semblance of control
truth, beauty, and goodness cannot be accounted for in a spreadsheet, and i think this explains a great deal about the modern world
my single favorite piece of new technology is a plugin that puts a pixel art bird inside my obsidian vault, and he just hops around and chirps while i write it is, dare i say, revolutionary. it has 10x'd my delight. the future is here. community.obsidian.md/plugins/poc...
Pocket Bird
The desktop pet for your vault! Adopt a tiny bird that flutters around your notes and keeps you company!
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