[19/100] Days Of Productivity

[9/100] days of productivity

Read...A LOT.

and that's all.

18.04.25

Daily carries.

Need to keep reminding myself of the importance of ritual in my life. When I forget it, when I forget myself, I find myself feeling so adrift. Like I’ve lost something. Ritual grounds me in a way few things do. Writing as a ritual. Fragrance as a ritual. Water breaks as a ritual. Lip balm because I perpetually forget that last one.

🎶 Present Tense - Radiohead

[16/100] days of productivity

Finally decided to tackle reading something by Fernando Pessoa. I don't know why but his most popular one, The Book of Disquiet, intimidates me so much, so I decided to start with his poetry. So far so good. Exquisite, I should say!

𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰

“Let go of the idea of winning or losing. In the game of life, the most important thing is just showing up and doing your best.”

— Unknown

articles to read instead of doomscrolling.

Demonology

A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield

The Humiliating Act of Falling In Love

How to read a painting

When Horror Is the Truth-teller

Love Is Like Cocaine

Lizzie Siddal: The life of a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel

Joan Didion Against a Performative Life

Women drawing nudes: a history of forbidden bodies

How midlife became a crisis

and more to come!

favorite love poems

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

The Kiss by Sara Teasdale

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

Our Story by William Stafford

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats

Why do I love You, Sir? by Emily Dickinson

Her Voice by Oscar Wilde

Love at First Sight by Wisława Szymborska

Echo by Christina Rossetti

Castile by Louise Glück

Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Simple pleasures: eating seasonal fruits, enjoying nature, going to art museums, getting lost in a book and savouring a cappuccino and croissant for breakfast.

Treating myself to a cup of Greek yoghurt, blueberries and redcurrants while reading White Nights by Fëdor Dostoevskij.

currently: reading carnivorously Lady Chatterley's Lover, mentally preparing myself for my next read (i.e. Babysitter), eating pokè, enjoying the warm weather and sunny days, wearing wide leg jeans + my bf botton downs, and starting a commonplace journal.