Weekly things
Splendid uselessness, ignoring texts and uncertainty
Things to read
7 things I (almost) learned last year from
Appreciate what happens, as a rule: “Thoughts are tedious rehearsals of what’s not happening; appreciation is the real thing, real life, ever-new and inexhaustible.”
A thing to try
Learn how to dance like David Byrne — I want to dance more in my days, and was delighted to stumble across this tutorial from Byrne himself
Something I’m keeping in mind
No need to hurry.
No need to sparkle.
No need to be anybody but oneself.
— Virginia Woolf
A thing to ponder
Passage
by Victoria Chang
Every leaf that falls
never stops falling. I once
thought that leaves were leaves.
Now I think they are feeling,
in search of a place—
someone’s hair, a park bench, a
finger. Isn’t that
like us, going from place to
place, looking to be alive?
Things from the day
Monday 1 January
I’ve never kayaked with someone before and within minutes we find ourselves bumping into rocks and c…