The challenges of our lifetime just never end, huh? I guess I thought that at some point I would just be able to chill, for like, ever.
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What do you do?
The question everyone asks at a party: so what do you do? I never quite know how to answer. Most of the time I assume people are actually asking the question: So what occupation do you have that pays your rent?
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I never said it was going to be easy.
I am worried about the environment, like really really worried, you probably should be too, but that's not what I am here to talk about. I am here to tell you about some small and large changes you can make in your life to do something about it. A lot of the things listed here are kinda hard to do, I get that, but I am not here to make it easy for you. You might want to hear that everything is going to be okay. It's not. So, make all of the excuses you want, but at the end of the day, or the end of your life, or the end of your children's lives this earth will be less habitable than it is right now. Therefore, I present you with an incomplete list of some very easy and some very hard things to do you lessen your impact on this planet we call home. Just remember, perfection is not the goal here, small incremental updates is the only way to lasting change.
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My rant on the algorithm
I see a lot of Instagram posts hating on “the algorithm.” I can see and understand why it’s frustrating to so many people, but it’s time to stop blaming the algorithm. It’s doing exactly what is was intended to do. If you want to exist outside of the confines that someone else built, it’s time to find a new space to do so.
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Look at that house. It’s so normal. We all have cardboard boxes and vacuums.
My love for J. Kenji Lopez Alt
I spent about four hours over the last few days obsessively watching J. Kenji Lopez Alt videos on youtube. There is something magnetic about him. The kitchen is nice, but also messy in a real way. There is no veil of perfection about his home. Sometimes he has to pause recording to get his kid a bowl of blueberries, sometimes the dog comes in for a piece of pepperoni. Sometimes he calls his wife out for scratching the surface of his 20 year old non-stick pan.
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Emotions need motion
I am not sure I have the right words to describe how I am feeling/doing/acting right now. We are two weeks into a home quarantine because of the coronavirus. I definitely am having a lot of feelings, but no words seem to encapsulate the depth and breadth of my experience.
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Transformations
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If change were easy, everyone would do it.
If change were fun, everyone would do it.
If change brought only pleasure, everyone would do it.
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Tensions
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Lately I have been trying to feel my emotions more deeply. Turns out, no emotion is one-sided and basically every feeling I have exists in the tension between two or more places. Sometimes I try not to label my emotion at all. But, some days it feels better to file it in a category so I can observe it if the same feeling comes up again.
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Hell hath no fury...
You know that phrase, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?” I think that men constructed this to pit women against one another, that men were so threatened by women that they made up stories and narratives to make us out to be jealous, and for a while, we believed them, trusted them.
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