ex professor, mom of two small kids, lost my job and decided to Just Do Things use that free will 🎉
Connecticut, USA
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Ok so as you might know I'm writing a dark academia romantasy novel:
"She needed a weapon. She got a soulmate. Same difference, probably."
A desperate student summons history's most dangerous wizard to find her missing mother — and accidentally binds her soul to his. Oops.
Comp Shelf: Ninth House, A Deadly Education, Fourth Wing
If this sounds interesting to you or you otherwise want to get updates/join beta readers/cheer this on, sign up here: all-your-pretty-bones.pages.…
Was very happy to have dinner at the NY yacht club with our sailing team this week. Cheers to a great season!
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Been on a classic horror kick, realizing there’s so much I’ve never seen. This week we’ve had: Dracula, Frankenstein, & King Kong (all the 1930s versions.) Dracula was by far the best of these three. Legosi was magnetic. King Kong is soooooo silly, but Faye Wray is lovely.
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When the last several Harry Potter books were released, we had midnight book launches attended by millions. Children, in some cases very young, finished these 700 & 800 page books in a single day. And now people are telling me I made it up, that this couldn’t ever have happened.
I actually started making these this year for myself and now I have a “sadness” protocol, “anxiety menu”, and “cold comfort” lists and they have been great. Really good to pull out of pocket.
Underrated life advice: Have a Bad-Day Protocol. Go for a walk. Eat something clean. Hit a workout. Take a long shower. Get to bed early. Whatever. You don’t need to solve every problem when you’re at your worst. You need a few moves that stop a bad day from becoming a bad week.
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Ohhhhh my god I just saw the new “promote” animation for the first time and it almost made me insta delete the app. Holy crap, that’s ghastly.
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"I don’t care how many jobs you've created if your employees live in poverty."
- Abdul El-Sayed 2019
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Tom Hiddleston says happiness is overrated and spending your life chasing it can actually make you unhappy
"Happiness is overrated. Meaning is underrated. Happiness is like a sunrise or a sunset. Bear with me"
"You're there. It's lovely. You're present with it. The sun's rising or the sun is setting. It's perfect. After 15 minutes, the moment is over and it's gone. Trying to sustain it is impossible because it's over"
"And a life spent chasing the permanence of that feeling will make you unhappy because you can't hold on to it. The moment you try to hold on to it, it slips through your fingers and is lost"
"Meaning is a structure that only you create in your own life, an architecture with your own particular spiritual fingerprint, whereby if you're going through a hard time, if you're going through challenge, struggle, obstacles, suffering or pain, only you know why you're going through it"
"You might know, this is hard now. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my mom. I'm doing it for my future"
"And then it makes enduring the hard times bearable because you know what it means"
"And meaning - this is the take - meaning yields joy. Joy is deeper than happiness"
