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a working archive of attention, books, days, rituals, fragments & contradictions.
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the self-maintenance list (opens the original)
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i can go a whole week attending to everyone else’s teeth and deadlines and appetites before i notice, usually on a wednesday, that i’ve dropped clean off my own list. i haven’t thought of myself as a person with a face and a body and a smell of my own in days.everything on this list does one job: it keeps me feeling like a person underneath everyone else’s needs. some of it is skincare, one is a dress, one is what i do after the kids are asleep. what they share is that they’re fast, they don’t a
the art of paying attention (opens the original)
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there are certain places where we have agreed to pay attention.museums are one of them.we enter, lower our voices, put away the distractions of the outside world and allow ourselves to stand in front of something that someone else has decided is worth looking at. a painting can ask for five minutes, twenty minutes, a lifetime. we accept the terms.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!avfw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2F
25 questions inspired by anaïs nin (opens the original)
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desire is one of the places where we become least reliable narrators of ourselves. we make it respectable, explain it away, call it impractical, inconvenient, embarrassing. we learn early which forms of wanting will be rewarded and which will make other people uncomfortable.anaïs nin understood that desire was rarely only about sex. it could be hunger, vanity, fantasy, jealousy, curiosity, escape. it could be the wish to be looked at differently, or to become someone different in the presence of
last call: 7 mystery boxes left (opens the original)
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there are only 7 mystery boxes left.if you’ve been thinking about getting one, this is your last chance to get this version of the box.i made every one by hand, filling them with things i’ve collected because i couldn’t leave them behind:some anaïs nin.a mary oliver poem to keep.georgia o’keeffe’s art and letters.an agnes martin print.a botanical plate … Read more
i made you a blind box (opens the original)
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dropping by with a lil hello and an update the summer has been full, and i’ve been up to something so special—the kind of thing i’ve wanted to make for years and kept not quite finding the moment for. it comes to you the older way. not through a screen this time, but in a carefully wrapped box, with your name on it.for months i’ve been gathering obje… Read more
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