Sunday Musings #5

"take risks in order to know yourself" - Miranda July

Welcome to Sunday musings #5! i’m posting quotes that moved me on Threads, writing more entries in this online version of a diary than my actual physical notebooks and catch myself recording my fifth voice note of the day. Here’s my space to share with you what writing amused, made me cry and dance in the rain!

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“what if there isn’t a next time?” what if the words that came out of my mouth aren’t exactly the ones i actually wished to say, or what if i actually don’t want to see someone again. what if we never come around to meet up again?

haunting you with my writing & being haunted by drowning nostalgia

here are a few selected pieces that I’ve read this week and think you should devour too:

I wonder what would’ve happened if I’d kissed her with conviction. If I’d curled her into my arms, squeezed her tight, made a scene. Maybe she would’ve believed I loved her, if I’d acted it out properly. Show, don’t tell.

azeez

“how hard should you kiss a woman?” (Platonic Husband)

We go searching for something different, only to discover that it’s another form of the same thing.

Alexandra Nash

“Escaping the Hamster Wheel: Finding Freedom Within the System.” (The Diary of a Sustainability Advocate)

I know that when I am in it — when the words are a vast ocean into which I can wade, into which I can hold myself under and feel the force of it, the ease of it — it is one of the only euphorias I really crave.

Amy Lin

“where’s the door?” (At The Bottom Of Everything)

Because from abundance, at the opposite spectrum of scarcity, we create, we ignite, we build, in truth, in love, in fairness, in soul, in mission, in light, for the highest good of all, human and nature alike. And together, we can create a more beautiful, aligned and soulful paradigm of artistry.

Lucie Aidart

“Will you support and befriend your art and your inner artist in 2025?” (The Alma Writer)

I see this in creative types all the time. We’re in the habit of thinking we are a brain in a jar. (…) You aren’t a brain in a jar! You are a brain in a body!

James Winestock

“Stop Pretending You're Not Tired” (James’s Substack)

What I really think is that you are not doing it for this new person, but for this new side of yourself. (…) It’s hard to trust your new side because it has no credit score, no deeds in its name. You don't know how trustworthy or good it is. In fact every instinct and every friend may tell you it's for sure untrustworthy and not good (…) I would generally say: take risks in order to know yourself.

Miranda July

“You Bust Loose From Heaven And Now Your Life Starts*” (Miranda July)

some honourable mentions:

• “Heartbreak - Why not turn your pain into a Hollywood movie prop?”

  Annie Atkins

• “🌤️ Here comes the sun - On beauty, vulnerability and diagnoses”

  Amanda Caswell

• “Art is a praying silence for a longing. - sitting there on the nicely white-clothed dining table reminiscing on the soup” Bonnie Orbison

• “Peace is a small thing”

  Rosie Miles

• “Here I Am!”

  Nik Black

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