"I decide to keep my mouth shut. She will find out soon enough what a nerd I am." – From my novel Returning Home to Her
Reading matter for the old gray matter: This week’s reading challenge has begun & my lesbian / sapphic novel Returning Home to Her is available for $2.99! 📖 🏳️🌈
"Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this …
I've been thinking about this one quite a bit lately. I'm wondering:
To what extent is it a question of economic or social #privilege to be able to make this choice at all? An example from my own life: as the pressures of #inflation continue, it feels like less of a choice to have this-or-that store app with #coupons and #discounts and whatnot on my phone. Even if I minimize the disturbance as much as possible by turning off #notifications, I'm still giving up a little sliver of my available attention in exchange for a (questionable?) economic benefit.
Also, for someone who is saddled with a lot of responsibilities or #mentalload or both, especially when time is low and a lot of planning and coordination is required, how realistic is it that one could make the shift away from depending so much on the phone?
Or looking at it …
I've been thinking about this one quite a bit lately. I'm wondering:
To what extent is it a question of economic or social #privilege to be able to make this choice at all? An example from my own life: as the pressures of #inflation continue, it feels like less of a choice to have this-or-that store app with #coupons and #discounts and whatnot on my phone. Even if I minimize the disturbance as much as possible by turning off #notifications, I'm still giving up a little sliver of my available attention in exchange for a (questionable?) economic benefit.
Also, for someone who is saddled with a lot of responsibilities or #mentalload or both, especially when time is low and a lot of planning and coordination is required, how realistic is it that one could make the shift away from depending so much on the phone?
Or looking at it another way, how much is this a realistic solution and how much is it a #romantic wouldn't-that-be-nice kind of idea? And even if it is realistic, my personal experience has shown that trying to make any change on my own is difficult at best; I wonder if it's helpful to put so much responsibility on each individual person. Pandora's box is open. What are we going to do about it now?
As I said before, happiness is an overflowing garden. Here, the paved path from the patio to the pond is becoming almost impassable. As I walk, the plants grab me and touch my skin. Beautiful! Again - Good: Walk barefoot. Better: Barefoot + bare arms and legs. Best: Shed your clothes altogether if your garden is sufficiently private. Heightens your senses, brightens the dullest day and banishes gloomy thoughts. ‣ Upright. Click to see all.
As I said before, happiness is an overflowing garden. Here, the paved path from the patio to the pond is becoming almost impassable. As I walk, the plants grab me and touch my skin. Beautiful! Again - Good: Walk barefoot. Better: Barefoot + bare arms and legs. Best: Shed your clothes altogether if your garden is sufficiently private. Heightens your senses, brightens the dullest day and banishes gloomy thoughts. ‣ Upright. Click to see all.
Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) – novelist, journalist, & editor – was born #OTD, 12 June.
Johnstone was editor for more than a decade of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, a journal famous for its vigorous liberal viewpoints & incisive literary reviews, & wrote some of the most remarkable Scottish novels of the #Romantic era.
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"...but basically, love is something we can't put our finger on at all. We use such words as warmth, tenderness. All these things—they don’t really get to the point. When you are loving somebody, you are simply delighting in that person as such. As if another human organism—in its mental and its physical aspects—were a piece of music or a work of art or a glorious morning; that you were just enjoying every inch of it."
