I defs relate to this! A framework that’s been helpful to me is valuing the work of self-soothing more? Like, that part of this is I feel like I should be scared in order to fix myself, but in fact, I’m better at dealing with things when I’m calm so it’s good to think thoughts that are calming
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I feel like this is making it sound weirder than it is? When I’m engaged in an interesting task, thoughts absolutely fall away and I’m just doing the thing. Toothbrushing isn’t very interesting, so maybe there’s a threshold difference, which is interesting, but isn’t this just flow?
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The one worry with the Jonathan Livingston Seagull lunchbox is you’re never gonna be sure if people are friends with you for you or if it’s just the lunchbox
Day #103: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
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This one rocks
Really thrilled to have a story "My Dad Who Lives in the Walls" in the new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social, out today! gooseberry-pie.com/my-dad-who-l...
My Dad Who Lives in the Walls - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Chris Curry on Unsplash by Chris Scott I don’t know the exact incident that made Dad decide to move into the walls of our house. It was probably a bunch of little stuff over time: The Padres ...
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It's so important to how these guys think that any attempt to solve or even not worsen a problem now is kind of a waste of effort since technology is about to change everything within a decade
Can’t wait to tell my students about this
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Yes, I bury the living, but that isn’t relevant to this story. Other things happen to me, you know.
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I’m such a fan of the title “I Bury the Living” for a movie where no living people ever get buried. We know, as an audience, that one of the characters regularly buries people alive, but the movie will never tell us which. The old gravedigger would be too obvious. Maybe the wife?
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That’s very true but when I look at that, my brain’s immediate thought is “Welcome to the jungle, captain; we behave most illogically”
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Johnny Debit Spoke Rose Tom Vindictive Saul of Tarsus Simon
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Somewhere in these walls is a version of Hamlet where instead of Hamlet he’s named Hamfarts. I will not rest until it has been eliminated.
