2018: To all the books I’ve read.
“The time has come”, the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax – Of cabbages – and kings- And why the sea is boiling hot – And whether pigs have wings.”
- Lewis Carroll
And of all the books I’ve read in 2018. My goal was 12 and I read 18.
- The sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur – I slept on Rupi’s writing for a long time because a) I don’t like getting…
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“I am no bird and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Jane Eyre manuscript, The Morgan Museum and Library, 2016
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i woke up at 6 this morning, wrote ‘malware is like vampires’ on my notes page, then went back to sleep.
@me: what the fuck
OH MY GOD BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO INVITE IT IN. YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON THE MALWARE TO LET IT TAKE OVER YOUR COMPUTER
You Wouldn’t Download A Vampire
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So one day, skincare met makeup and was like, “Wanna work together?” The result? The Influencer from @SUNDAYRILEY: a redness-reducing, oil-controlling foundation that comes in 20 ultra-flattering shades 👏🏾👏🏼👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻
Thirteen lessons from a new twenty-seven year old:
- Some people leave your life and don’t return. They have their own reasons and they don’t have to match with yours. They don’t need to give you an explanation and you don’t need to pause your life waiting for one.
- You were meant to do this work for a career.
- Don’t doubt your abilities.
- But don’t grow complacent or over confident in your abilities.…
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npr:
A pipe was the only sign of drug use found near Chris Bennett’s body in November. But it looked like the 32-year-old Taunton, Mass. native had stopped breathing and died of an opioid overdose. Bennett’s mother Liisa couldn’t understand what happened. Then she saw the toxicology report.
“I’m convinced he was smoking cocaine that was laced,” she says. “That’s what he had in his system, [it] was cocaine and fentanyl.”
Liisa Bennett was shocked. Chris had developed an addiction to pain pills and then heroin in his late teens but had not used opioids for at least 10 years, as far as she knew. Bennett had warned her son that if he ever used opioids again, he’d be in greater danger of an overdose because fentanyl, an opioid drug more powerful than heroin, was mixed into much of the supply.
“My focus was making sure that he wasn’t going to do the heroin that was laced,” Bennett says. She never suspected the crack cocaine Chris smoked occasionally would kill him. “Absolutely not.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says fentanyl, which is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin, was found in more than half of overdose deaths last year in 10 states including Massachusetts. Now, there’s concern as it creeps into cocaine.
Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Becoming A Deadly Problem Among Drug Users
Photo: Jesse Costa/WBUR
Caption: Arlington, Mass. Police Chief Fred Ryan, right, and Inspector Gina Bassett reviews toxicology reports on cocaine evidence looking for the possibility of fentanyl.
✨Life is made up of tiny miracles passing us by in each & every moment. Are your eyes open to the ways that Spirit speaks to you? Blades of grass rippling in the wind amongst a busy sidewalk, sun shimmers in a puddle, catching the moonrise at dusk ~ each moment so fleeting yet so meaningful. Internally commune with the world around you, wake up to the miracle that just being is. ✨ (at San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden)
Adriana. 24.
"Such that everybody will remember when all else is a dream forgotten." Kamala Markandaya
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."
Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
