Y26W40
10 posts in this week
- mind & meaning
on reframing pathological demand avoidance as a profound demand for autonomy, agency, and neuroaffirmative self-determination.
- nature & environment
on October across hemispheres, C. Louis Leipoldt’s ‘Oktobermaand,’ and an English translation of a South African spring poem.
- nature & environment
on weather talk as social glue, a grounding in natural forces, and why the last refuge of the unimaginative is anything but.
- books & reading
on ergodic appetites, bedtime fiction, and why for a recovering perfectionist the easy things are the hard ones.
- writing & publishing
on reclaiming a personal website, embracing imperfection, and attempting 100 posts in 13 weeks.
- mind & meaning
on perfectionism as a mind virus, and the rebellion that followed Long COVID.
- mind & meaning
on the Nadjeid, the Judgement of Ego, and rebelling against the workaholic bargain of eventual absolution.
- relationships & family
on parenting as duty, identity, reciprocal healing, and the lifelong work of raising ourselves.
- books & reading
on experimental literature, recovering from perfectionism, and why the easier reading experience can sometimes be the better choice.
- arts & culture
how music activates memory, reconnects us with earlier selves, and creates portals across time, distance, and loss.