Sherry Ning
I write about experiences you've felt but don’t know how to describe. Serious half the time.
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Agency doesn't matter if you lack intention (opens the original)
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The overarching theme of all my thoughts in the last two years have been around the ecosystem that attention, consumerism, mass media, and celebrity culture are all part of—specifically, where DESIRE sits in this ecosystem. I am giving a lecture on this topic in Toronto on September 10th. See season details or:Buy TicketA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life
Till Death (opens the original)
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Spring, 2026The jewelry designer spun her laptop around to show me and Ben a mock-up of what our wedding bands will look like as she handed us sample rings of varying widths so we could try on a few options. “See, this is a size 4.25, three-millimetre band—you don’t have a ton of space.” I studied the narrow strip of gold on my finger and brainstormed what to inscribe on the inside of our wedding bands, searching for a phrase brief enough to fit and large enough to contain my feelings. At first,
Diary of a people watcher, 3 (opens the original)
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I plan on writing more vignettes like this people watching series or these myth retellings. To art! Prose! And observation!I worry that decades in the future, people won’t be able to tell what it was like to be young in the 2020s, because of how little direct description went into the billions of words of writing we are producing about those years.— for (<a href="https://inkwellct.substack.com/p/in-a-world-of-op
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