Behind Glass | 🔗 https://brennan.day/behind-glass/
#PersonalEssay #SocialJustice #MediaCriticism #Politics #MentalHealth #Philosophy
A few minutes before I begin writing this, I woke up into an anxiety attack. There are a lot of issues I could be writing about, the world is fraught with uncertain violence. This is a story about me, and also a story about North Darfur and Kansas and Haiti and India. I ask this: whose suffering gets reported? Whose death counts behind glass?
“This One Hurts”: Vespaio’s Patrons Say Goodbye
Except for the long line out front, the dozens of former employees sitting at tables, and the occasional outbursts of applause, the last night at Vespaio, an Italian restaurant on Austin’s South Congress Avenue…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancafefood #austin #cafefood #Italia #Italian #ItalianRestaurants #italiano #italy #PersonalEssay #SouthCongressAvenue
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2579958/this-one-hurts-vespaios-patrons-say-goodbye/
The Blogging Übermensch, or, Being the Luckiest Person on Earth | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-blogging-uebermensch-or-being-the-luckiest-person-on-earth/
#Philosophy #PersonalEssay #Blogging #Gratitude #Self-Discovery
Exploring constitutive moral luck through Nagel and Williams alongside Nietzsche's Übermensch and amor fati, I reflect on the recursive gratitude I feel for who I constitutively am—and argue that blogging is a philosophical practice of self-overcoming: a daily, recursive Yes to existence.
AUNTY PAULINE
Remembering the Woman Who Shaped My Early Years
Some people don’t just pass through your childhood — they shape it.
A story of quiet support, early creativity, and the woman who gave me space to become.
🔗 Link below
https://medium.com/illumination/aunty-pauline-c922ecba444b?sk=ee9447e9bd45f8c238c4a75ad501a16e
#WritingCommunity #AfricanStories #NigerianWriters #ChildhoodMemories #Storytelling #PersonalEssay #Nostalgia
Being a 21st Century Schizoid Man | 🔗 https://brennan.day/being-a-21st-century-schizoid-man/
#PersonalEssay #MentalHealth #Neurodivergence #Psychology #Self-Discovery #DisabilityStudies #CulturalCriticism #Philosophy
My 10-year journey to save Life Is Strange's Chloe Price, and how doing so saved me, too
STORYTELLING Part Two: The (Literal) Magic of Writing | 🔗 https://brennan.day/storytelling-part-two-the-literal-magic-of-writing/
#PersonalEssay #CreativeWriting #LiteraryTheory #CognitiveScience #Culture #History #WritingProcess #Spirituality
Grammar/Glamour/Grimoire. 言霊 & heka. Spelling & spellcasting. The Word. Writing is generative, not descriptive. Cultures across millennia have understood that words conjure reality. Writing conjures, symbols activate the brain, serving as telepathy across distance and time.
Being Taken Seriously as a Writer | 🔗 https://brennan.day/being-taken-seriously-as-a-writer/
#PersonalEssay #IndieWeb #DigitalCulture #SocialCommentary #Writing
STORYTELLING Part One: The Neurology of Narrative | 🔗 https://brennan.day/storytelling-part-one-the-neurology-of-narrative/
#PersonalEssay #CreativeWriting #Literature #Neuroscience #Psychology #Philosophy #IndigenousWriting #CulturalCriticism
How do our brains physically process stories? The neurology of narrative transportation, brain synchrony between storytellers and listeners, biocultural theory, and Indigenous storytelling traditions that collapse Western narrative structures.
Brennan Kenneth Brown
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