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Call me crazy, but I’m coming around to the idea that the endless cycle of looking at my phone and reading the news and sharing snarky quips to my Instagram story might not be the most productive approach to resisting tyranny and creating a better world.
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Lastly, I share to remind us all (and myself) that anger and grief can’t be all we’ve got.
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
In the midst of this, I came across a quote that struck me where I stood:

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”

The quote is universally attributed to C.S. Lewis despite there being no evidence that he wrote or said it, but that is beside the point—
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I don’t wholeheartedly agree—evidenced by my second paragraph here—but the idea is worth wrestling with: what does anger actually do for me?

Lately I’ve been reflecting on how much anger I carry, and how much I want to continue to carry, and how it’s helped and how it’s hurt me thus far.
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
We’ve been inventing new ways to increase human suffering for the sake of political, cultural, and financial gain for all of history, and America has taken a deep pride in being at the forefront of this innovation.
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The horrors that we continue to wake up to every morning are simply the new and improved horrors of last week, last year, last century.
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I’ve tried and failed a dozen times to ~“say something”~ about the past month and all the evils and insanities that it has given us. Each attempt has quickly turned into writing about the past year, and then the past decade, because, well, how could it not?
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
pt. X 🫶
December 31, 2024 at 11:00 PM
pt. IX
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pt. VIII
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pt. VII
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pt. VI
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pt. V
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pt. IV
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pt. III
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pt. II
December 31, 2024 at 11:00 PM
time for a break hank
December 29, 2024 at 8:15 PM