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art, poetry, cinema, love, meditation, and some venting
September 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
July 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
chat the guy I’m seeing calls me an …. elephant?
July 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
she 100% right
June 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Meredith Nemirov, Rivers Feed the Trees
June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
braised tofu and all my fav veggies in this gochujang sauce + peanut cucumber salad. to be eaten w rice and some kimchi
May 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
May 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Especially this portion.
“Cultivating entrepreneurs of the self has long been a cardinal feature of neoliberal order”. Often forgetting that liberal democracy is what enabled their riches.
May 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
MIT folks made this amazing website (senseable.mit.edu/dust-bloom/, seriously so pretty) to show how air pollution 'disrupts' menstrual cycle.

the main result of the paper is.. this.
May 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This piece by Alex de Waal, a world expert on famine for more than 40 years, really got to me.
May 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
thinking about home (india)
May 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Poem by ha jin
May 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I sent this poem to a guy I’m seeing. Man even the faint possibility of love is powerful
May 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Clear east/west and economic divide in coal use in EU 27.
May 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
May 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
sent a selfie to a guy I’m seeing tomorrow
April 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Negative capability : “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact or reason”
April 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Lovely photo by David Guttenfelder
April 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
April 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Really enjoyed this piece on LA fires by Martin Filler but mostly impressed by this nugget that a UCLA professor in 1970s could pay Charles Moore to design a house in Santa Monica canyons.
April 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Love the opening paragraph of Anthony Lane's New Yorker review of Ross Macdonalds books
March 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
March 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM