Note #14

Today, I am working on ME

Note #17

I was operating at the Frustration Level for five days until yesterday. The Frustration Level is an anxiety-ridden plane — you feel pain and regret the instant you wake up, and you don’t even know why. When…

Good seed

Remember when you were much younger

Remember when you

were much

younger, fresh

out of college,

and still a

Note #16

Write, child.

Write, child.

Note #15

As I stare at the pile of trash bags accumulating in our hallway, I want to beg for mercy for all the mindless consumption I have done

Seen

She will just ask for a moment in which you point a microscope onto her soul

I am flesh and bones and contradictions. I hang self-portraits on online walls and call anyone shallow who does the same. But my soul hides in the images, waiting…

Note #9

E T H I C S + A E S T H E T I C S

Since yesterday, my most absorbed hours have been spent reading Elif Batuman’s The Idiot (a reco from a writer whose prose I really like). I’m 35.5% into it, says my e-reader (yes, I’ve settled with the digital version; we moved into a smaller unit last…

Note #13

I’m close to nuking my posts on Facebook.

My digital marketer self calls it an audit. She wants a brand-new brand.

My writer self feels it’s an act that aligns with the blossoming, which is about restraint, and the avoidance of mistakes that you can neither…

Note #12

Just because you know a lot of information doesn’t mean you’re smart, or wise. It just means your brain can retain a lot of information.

It’s in synthesizing info and building your inner world with the processed bits and churning something useful back to the outer world that you find…

Daily grind

How to be Sylvia Plath-efficient and not self-destruct

KanbanFlow

I’ve yet to go deep into how ‘streamline’ and ‘meander’ are two different ways of flowing, but they somehow relate to streams. And they also describe and…

Note #10

A quick break from blogging at work.

There’s joy you can share with online friends, but that which comes from easy/hard wins? For me it’s enough to share it with the few who have cared about and invested in the process.