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A thermos full of tea
A tip for my faithful followers: the Lincoln Center NYPL performing arts library is a wonderful spot for working on things
22.03.2025 22:13 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Walking around Manhattan with Reverdy & Rimbaud in my bag, translating Finnish poetry from an unpublished manuscript and enjoying the spring weather; all and all what I consider a productive day
22.03.2025 22:11 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
America asleep
19.03.2025 20:33 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The harpsichord is an underrated instrument
11.03.2025 09:07 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy Valentine's Day! Schubert played by a husband and wife duo
youtu.be/fv0uDH0XCrU?...
Moon walk from last night
13.02.2025 00:14 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Been enjoying Carmignola's Bach recently
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Scenes of Boston winter
08.02.2025 15:50 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0In specific, as an independent or complementary practice to several lineages; it's remarkably simple & practically minded, structured towards generally useful ways of approaching life & the development of habits & character that support them
06.02.2025 22:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reading about Tibetan lojong practice, seems highly worthwhile
06.02.2025 22:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Similarly I've been liking attending a local book club where we recently went through some Lispector and Bolaño because of the different sensibilities of the readers. It's fascinating how texts resonate differently with people, something that's obvious but easy to forget if reading by oneself
05.02.2025 15:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Something about how literature is always both communal and private
05.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Been finding it very useful to read several translations of the same poem. The differences become a sort of koan that stays with me, even and perhaps especially if I can also read the original
05.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sunning my flowers
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30.01.2025 16:52 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sometimes it's worth digging these things out, much for us to learn
29.01.2025 00:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's about this much snow here but it's sticking and boosting the little light that we get. Walks hit many times harder than they would otherwise in terms of energy and sheer awakeness provided
29.01.2025 00:52 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The lion was saving him from the pillar that was being placed right where he was napping when the volcano suddenly erupted and covered all
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My landlord's cat likes to come hang out in my room. Here he's trying to make me sleepy while I was reading
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Why do we need an elsewhere? How is it that these lines now form again? Is it because you are not here? Perhaps you now are the elsewhere, the distance that words need in order to cross it, the distance that words need to come onto their own."
21.11.2024 07:09 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do I simply have it too good? If writing is an escape and there is nothing to escape from, then where is elsewhere; if all that is is, what good are words?
21.11.2024 07:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"It's remarkable. When I told you how little time I had to write & that I should change my life in order to write more, I was nonetheless writing all the time; now that I have designed my life around writing, I barely write at all; in fact this letter already is the most I've written since I moved.
21.11.2024 07:09 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The disciple walked out to the verandah and found the master eating rice shaped exactly like in sashimi but without the fish.
What is this, a new exercise in austerity, the disciple asked.
The master pointed at the nearby temple cat who was in the process of gulping down the last piece of salmon
