What I'm Reading
I'm trying to read more and think more about what I read. This is the proof.
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Atomic Habits Revisited: A Two-Year Late Update on My 2021 Goals
I’ve re-embraced the promise of Atomic Habits since my first read-through–that by changing and directing my habits in their minutiae, by changing my systems, I’ll get where I want to go, and continue becoming who I want to be.
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“Atomic Habits” by James Clear and the Self-Care Ritual of Routine: Or How I Plan to Process 2020
I find a lot of comfort in routine, controlling the things I can control when so much of the outside world feels and is so broken. My emotional stamina is currently finite and fleeting, so I have to spend it wisely or risk losing, hours, days, whatever to debilitating anxiety, which brings me to the point of this post: self-care.
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How Poetic is Too Poetic? A Review of The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling is a book that seeks to transform, as a year reinvents a person season by season, or at least offers up the opportunity by making an example of nature’s interminable cycle of death and bloom.
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I Started Praying Again: Mary Oliver Taught Me How
A worshipful review of Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver.
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Prone to Swoons: How Not to Write Cliche When You Are One
I blue-screened in front of the mirror, addled by a full day of beer and wine and a prolonged period of undereating. My body just didn’t have enough of what it needed to keep me conscious right then, overwhelmed as it had been many times before: after my wisdom tooth surgery, four-wheeling accident, childhood fever. I swooned, as I have discovered myself prone to do.
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A Brief History of Amy Lowell
I acknowledge my own debt to Lowell, and thank her for her poem “Patterns,” which inspired one of my tattoos.
