flâneur

Anjali Mathi

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  • I repair what others cannot.
    Frank Diaz | LinkedIn
  • What does platonic friendship feel like? Carpenter: Safe and weightless Abstract: Like a gift from God.
    Sabrina Carpenter & Kevin Abstract Really Love Each Other
  • "I finished it, got on a plane to shoot ‘Little Women.’ And I remember looking down at the field of Budapest and started weeping because I felt like I’d left Dani there. Like I’d left her to figure out how to do the rest of her life."
    Best of Pugh on X: "Florence Pugh says she struggled saying goodbye to Dani after finishing ‘Midsommar’ "I finished it, got on a plane to shoot ‘Little Women.’ And I remember looking down at the field of Budapest and started weeping because I felt like I’d left Dani there. Like I’d left her to https://t.co/Fg11t0qPrB" / X
  • But every great city is only lovable as your city, once it becomes your city in the way the loop of the local suburban Target aisles in your suburb of Miami was yours.
    A.V. Marraccini on X: "I didn't honestly think I would automatically love NYC, or necessarily love it at all, as is the expectation. But every great city is only lovable as your city, once it becomes your city in the way the loop of the local suburban Target aisles in your suburb of Miami was yours." / X
  • The exurban flâneur knows stretches of long highway that feel like Mountain Goats songs; the Brooklyn one romanticises peeling lamppost paint and the vagaries of subways.
    A.V. Marraccini on X: "I grew up in an American suburb lived in London, Berlin, and now NYC-- and I think every city is that city. The exurban flâneur knows stretches of long highway that feel like Mountain Goats songs; the Brooklyn one romanticises peeling lamppost paint and the vagaries of subways." / X
  • As if my friends are something that fell down from heaven and hit me in the face. As if they’re not the result of time, patience, repetition and yearning.
    Radical fun - by Ava - bookbear express
  • If Black life and leadership are to endure and uplift Silicon Valley, we must bind together, continually show up, speak boldly and insist that the doors we open never close for those who come after us. Our fight and our progress rest in the power of our collective voice, now more than ever.
    Cantrell: Black life, leadership and power in Silicon Valley - San José Spotlight
  • So when my phone does its little mating calls of pings and buzzes, it could be bringing me updates from people I love, or showing me alerts I never asked for from corporations hungry for my attention. When I pull it out, content and communication appear in similar forms—notifications, social-media posts, vertical video—and they blur together. As interactions with loved ones converge with all the other kinds of media on smartphones, Samuel Hardman Taylor, a professor who studies social media at the University of Illinois at Chicago, told me, “our relationships are becoming a part of that consum…
    The Great Friendship Flattening - The Atlantic
  • Richard was the favorite of the four children in his family. In the rest of the world, it would be impossible to find that much tenderness and acceptance. For me, the larger world was easier than home, I learned the first summer at sleepaway camp, when I was five. Strangers had no idea who I was and neither did I, because what you learn when you are set free that young is you are not one thing all the time. You’re plastic. You’re another person’s mirror.
    The Marriage Dividend by Laurie Stone
  • The next day it was just him and me and Lindsay on the water. We were cruising fast and loud. “You drive,” Jeff shouted over the motor. Lindsay grinned and nodded. I had never driven a boat before. “What do I do?” I shouted. Jeff shrugged. I took the wheel. We cruised past small islands, families of pink roseate spoonbills, garbage tankers swarmed by seagulls, fields of grass and wolfberries, and I realized it was not that remarkable for a person to understand what another person needed.
    The Paris Review - The Crane Wife - The Paris Review
  • Wading through the muck of the Aransas Reserve I understood that every chance for food matters. Every pool of drinkable water matters. Every wolfberry dangling from a twig, in Texas, in January, matters. The difference between sustaining life and not having enough was that small. If there were a kind of rehab for people ashamed to have needs, maybe this was it. You will go to the gulf. You will count every wolfberry. You will measure the depth of each puddle.
    The Paris Review - The Crane Wife - The Paris Review
  • I think I really put the novel in Sacramento because I was homesick. I wanted to remember the weather and the rivers. INTERVIEWER The heat on the rivers? DIDION The heat. I think that's the way the whole thing began. There's a lot of landscape that I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. If I hadn't wanted to remember. The impulse was nostalgia. It's not an uncommon impulse among writers. I noticed it when I was reading From Here to Eternity in Honolulu just after James Jones died. I could see exactly that kind of nostalgia, that yearning for a place, overriding all narrative c…
    Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction
  • Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. INTERVIEWER Are you conscious of the reader as you write? Do you write listening to the reader listening to you? DIDION Obviously I listen to a reader, but the only reader I hear is me. I am always writing to myself. So very possibly I'm committing an aggressive and hostile act toward myself.
    Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction
  • But then I think about how I feel when I wake up in the morning, and my first instinct isn’t to check my phone. I think about the way my thoughts feel more mine now, unfiltered by the urge to make them digestible for an audience. I think about how much I enjoy moving through the world without the subconscious weight of being perceived. And suddenly, the trade-off doesn’t seem so bad.
    The Elegance of Digital Disappearance - by Janu
  • WE NEVER DESIGN ALONE; WE CO-CREATE ACROSS GENERATIONS AND UNDERSTAND THE INTERCONNECTED NATURE OF OUR DECISIONS THROUGH TIME AND EXPERIENCES.
    Design to Divest
  • WE USE DESIGN AS A MEDIUM TO CONVEY THE INHERENT WORTHINESS OF ALL PEOPLE AND LIFEFORMS. DESIGN SHOULD CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR DIGNITY FOR EVERYONE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A TOOL FOR DEHUMANIZATION. WE REJECT ABLEISM, WORK TO ELIMINATE BARRIERS TO EQUITY, AND CONSTANTLY SEEK OUT THE VOICES OF THE MOST VULNERABLE TO INFORM OUR DECISIONS.
    Design to Divest
  • There is something which one can find within most people which was missing from him. Whether he was born without it or, rather, it was taken from him at a young age is ultimately academic. What matters is that this emptiness made him desirable to a certain faction of Capital, not really people, you understand, just some flows which all for one reason or another would like to drown the world, and he was happy to become their vessel. He encouraged them to pour their infernal sludge into that emptiness, and fill him up with it, so that he might work it into something which could spread across soc…
    Meaninglessness - by david c. porter - Garden Scenery
  • By this time, midway through winter, I had become entirely fascinated with my spiritual melodrama. Then it stopped. Days passed, months passed and I saw nothing. I continued to peer and glance, sitting on the rug in front of my sofa in the curtainless morning with my nerves open to the air like something skinned. I saw nothing. Outside the window spring storms came and went. April snow folded its huge white paws over doors and porches. I watched a chunk of it lean over the roof and break off and fall and I thought, How slow! as it glided soundlessly past, but still—nothing. No nudes. No Thou. …
    The Glass Essay by Anne Carson | Poetry Foundation
  • Someone told me once that the most deeply-felt benefit of learning about a topic like urban architecture or local plant life is that it tangibly improves and enriches the experience of walking around. Once you start learning about that stuff, the density of accessible information per city block increases in an extremely literal sense: you are able to engage with more of the world than you were before, even though the amount of physical world around you has not changed. I see this phenomenon all the time in my best friend, a scientifically-minded genius who grew up on the New England coastline …
    How i read - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess
  • Personally, it is my goal to dream outside the prescribed fantasies of our culture; to live a life of choices that do not prevent my own happiness or disempower me. Swift’s music once felt like a companion in that pursuit — an authentic emotional voice that treated sincerity as a form of rebellion, that spoke to the messy, yearning parts of girlhood with radical clarity. There was a time when her writing seemed to imagine beyond what was suggested to be possible, when vulnerability itself felt progressive. And for that reason, The Life of a Showgirl has kind of broken my heart — not (just) bec…
    The Decent Man Fetish - by Candice Wuehle
  • What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding