2025 ins & outs
Sorry for landing up in your inbox again; this one felt time sensitive.
IN: cooking things from scratch, pretty kitchenware, reading nonfic, films from before I was born, yoga, seeing friends in real life, fruit, French, consuming things with more direction and less aimlessness, secondhand clothing, mocktails, big breakfasts, nice bread, candles, doing things for no specific reason, leaving the house frequently, public transport, newsletters, taking photos, journaling by hand
OUT: laziness, Instagram reels, letting work take over your life and brain, letting Instagram and Twitter take over your life and brain, anxiety, skipping meds, dehydration, StoryGraph (maybe), posting everything online, ordering food every five minutes, being unable to be alone, phone addiction, ignoring real life, inertia, obsessive nostalgia, fear about getting old, boring standards of success, superficial creativity
Other stuff I am into right now:
The drawings of Maria Catharina Prestel — “Although Johann’s name appears on the portfolio covers, it is now acknowledged that Maria Catharina was the creator of a significant portion of the prints, among them some of the most technically complex. She and Johann eventually separated, and Maria Catharina moved to London, where she resumed her printmaking career. She remained there until her death in 1794.”
This playlist I made in July, minus any instances of T*ylor Sw*ft whom I have blocked on Spotify like a normal person
Gerhard Richter
Using random (sentimental, possibly) bits and papers as bookmarks
This essay by
This essay by
This track, and
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Caroline Crompton’s A Body Made of Glass
Fredric Jameson’s A Singular Modernity
Anchovies
“Couch yoga”
Substack
This video by Savannah Brown, which feels like the inside of my head
Read other stuff:
