Fortnightly things

Curiosity, notes to self, and celebrating a new look

“What felt like stuckness was at times necessary stillness, or at other times a sense of flow in a direction I didn’t expect. A rut can be a refining of the rhythm, a redirection, a rest. Such periods are not just rejuvenating a life, but living a life.”

• Read latest essay: Things I’ve done during a rut

• Delightful notes to self from

  Holly Ringland
  of
  The Joy Rise

• Sorry, I’m a little new to this from

  Eden Avery
  of
  girlhood

• It is seldom wise to tell all from

  Catherine Shannon

• “You can’t go looking for interesting ideas, not directly. You have to look for that thing surges up in you—surges like rage, like laughter, like sadness—when you encounter clues.” — reflections on curiosity from

  Henrik Karlsson
  of
  Escaping Flatland
  (complement with doing the thing that feels good from the archive

“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

— Jane Austen