Writer's Diary
8/6/25
When all else fails, some creative destruction, some turnover, is necessary.
This is the natural state of the artist: forced to solve problems; the problem of what to do next, what the next phase will be, is an exciting one.
Launching a new Substack journal next month—> find out more here
We are rabbits chased by the snake of death in the enclosed pen of time.
I make it to the beach for the first time all summer. There’s something immediately healing about that: the kind of sun you get when the sand is refracting and concentrating light, when the skin takes in salt (magnesium) and sun.
Low agency, low assertiveness is the way to please people and to make pseudo-friends.
High agency, high assertiveness is a way to displease people and make real friends
(a theory)