words

10/2/25
staying focused can be detrimental
Looping brown noise, rumbling in my noise-canceling headphones, blocking out distractions, numbing my radar  
Leave room for x quantities
You don’t know what that pot is going to be yet

10/5/25
maybe I shoud use a psuedonym and spell it in all lowercase like bell hooks


10/9/25
microaggression + transgression = microtransgression

an indirect, subtle statement or action by members of a marginalized group that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct.  Microtransgressions often reclaim power and subjectivity by crossing boundaries that maintain oppression, but not enough to jeopardize one's own safety.

10/12/25
can the constraints of binary thought  be  a good thing?  

10/19/25
anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
having constraints is liberating
what happens when you don’t have a “studio?”
the greatest freedom is to have no choice

“In a medium like clay, anything can be done and I think that’s dangerous.  It’s too fluid, too fascile.  The very freedom is a kind of anti-sculpture to me.  When I work with a material like stone,

11/10/25
trying to read about how other people interpret “live the questions now” defeats the purpose

11/28/25  
a moving target

spend enough time in a place and it starts to feel more like home than the place you grew up in

spend enough time doing something new and it starts to feel like more of your identity than what you thought your identity was  

1/5/2025
minds are like filing cabinets
“formulate a theory that fits the evidence retrospectively”

“when you  see something beautiful, buy it.  Instead, when you see something beautiful, begin to repair the injuries of the world”
unselfing/radical decentering

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