Then I went home and felt like crap for three hours. Brain... brain, what are you doing?
I have eaten four of the banana and apple muffins I just made.
Don't worry, they are puny half-size muffins, so I have only really had TWO. I'm already looking forward to my 'third'.
Has anyone heard of this YouTube channel, Beauty of Science? They create lovely videos of chemical reactions. Very zen!
Envisioning Chemistry: Precipitation IV
https://youtu.be/603k16Rx7YU
https://mastodon.social/media/ul6uThD608eOqzSAF-E
#youtube #film #video #chemistry #beauty #science #peaceful
Was quite affected by this article when I listened to it (narrated on Curio.io)
https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-coming-of-age-narrative-is-a-conformist-lie
Makes me think I've been waiting to 'grow up' like it's just a train that hits you at some point.
I was also really struck by how the coming of age story only works for white males.
Need to do some more thinking about this.
The writing.exchange instance is being weird right now, so here:
jjeden.tumblr.com/post/167652752693/on-religion
Did something productive with my emotions for once. Here's a new #poem. It's supposed to be #spokenword but I'm probably not going to perform it any time. Just read it in the voice of an angry Angeleno.
I'm still quite bad at taking care of myself - had a big thing (which was a volunteer thing) go badly yesterday so stayed up until 6am trying to fix it and getting really worked up. It's so easy to fall back into the old habits... #meditation would change that but I can't make the habit stick