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Annalee Newitz 🍜 · @annaleen
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OK you are all my accountability buddies for the day. I will finish revising chapter 4 and start revising chapter 5 by the end of the day. I will report back by day's end! If I succeed, there will be graphic pictures of cobbler.

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Maybe nothing is significant. Maybe everything is. Maybe there is no difference between the two...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Haphazard. Half-shattered. Roughly assembled. Poorly hewn. Life comes to you cobbled together. We don't get a say. We have almost no control. It's something into which we are thrown. Our culture. This time. This place. This cage. And yet, our one "invioable freedom", Barabara Brown Taylor says, is getting to decide what it all means. We get to make meaning out of everything...

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Annalee Newitz 🍜 · @annaleen
13285 followers · 2089 posts · Server wandering.shop

that feeling you get when you are two weeks away from finishing a major revision of your already-completed book, and you finally realize what your thesis is.

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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This week's newsletter went out first thing this morning.

Some thoughts on the geology of endings, the topology of change...

Link below if you'd like to give it a read:
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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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There is a difference between safety and certainty, between absolutes and sure footing. Perhaps there is nothing we can control, no way to avoid the fear. But, if we look closely there are smalls instances that afford us a sense of trust and reliability. People, places, and things. A good book. A close friend. A stable hand. Just enough to show us that our story is not yet at an end...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Our challenge is not so much to meet difference, to accept otherness, or to welcome the dissimilar, with the aim of finding some hidden sense of shared sameness, but to do so in a way to relish what is divergent precisely because it is so unlike ourselves...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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"[T]here are those who think there is no way back from the catastrophic event", Nick Cave says. That the gravity of grief is too strong. That there is no way to escape it's pull. "That they will never laugh," never love, never hope, never feel comfort or warmth again. But, just as sure as the world will turn and the sun will shine, you can, you must, you will...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Finishing up next week's newsletter.

Some thoughts on the way things end and the way they begin again...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Sometimes behind the simplest of sheers there is something left ajar. A passage. A presence. A door. An entryway to infinity and clarity. Vastness and enormity. The magic that holds the world together, that keeps us together. That binds us to something bigger, to one another, to ourselves...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Working on next week's newsletter.

Thinking about beginnings and endings and change...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Doors open and close. Conceal and reveal. “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget”, Cormac McCarthy says, and there are doorways in between. Between memory and anticipation. Between hope and regret.
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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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"The immediate task of philosophy,” says Karl Marx, “is to unmask human self-alienation in its unholy shape". To uncover the points of severance and disconnect. To find the gaps forced between things. To show how and where they meet...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Get lonely enough for long enough you start to talk to books. You try on their words to see how they feel. You spin them around yourself and start to shed your skin. You wonder what it might be like to have something to say. You under go a change. "All eloquence is borrowed", David Dark says, until it becomes something new, something different, something all your own...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Doors are places of doubt and belief. Where the tricksters linger. Where the deep-seated shifts of calamity and serendipity occur. Places of faith and trust and yearning. Places of disillusionment and discontent. A longing for somewhere else, for some place else, for something more...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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My writing is in small bursts. In fits and starts. In scraps and fragments. In the hope that it all amounts to something complete. In the hope that in the process maybe I will to. "The discipline of creation", Madeleine L'Engle says, "is an effort towards wholeness."

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Like a miracle, like magic, like it's nothing.

With sanctity and certainty, the sun rises, because it can. Because it must. Because it will. There's nothing strong enough to stop it. It refuses to be subdued...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Doors open and close, conceal and reveal, even in the most unlikely of places, even in the most unexpected of things...

Some thoughts coming out in tomorrow's newsletter...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Working next week's newsletter.

Thinking about the immensity, the mystery, and memories that lie in wait on either side of every door...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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"We are always caught", Jon Kabat-Zin says, in our own self-assembling bars, "the karma of it" all. A prison of own making, a prisoner of our own condemnation. Built and rebuilt everyday. No quarter. No pardon. No parole. Maybe redemption arrives as a riot. Maybe forgiveness is an escape...

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