Fragments

A scrap heap of fragments: half-thoughts, turns of phrase, and words caught mid-flight. Moved here from my ideas page to grow on their own. Have a browse! Steal a few!

Fragments

166 fragments, lowercased, arranged alphabetically.

• a book lover's hierarchy of needs based on maslow's pyramid
• a contemplative stance toward the world
• a countryside of skeletons
• a house without books is like a castle without an armory
• a hurried percolation
• a porous relationship to time
• a roadway to healing
• a weird way to live our lives
• abandon your identity and start again
• absorb the terminology
• aimless yet far too many aims
• anger as fuel not devastation
• anything can be improved with birdsong
• asking what if isn't my job
• avoiding the living through posting trap
• away from the computer and towards the world
• be a life enjoyer
• be a problem to your problems
• be light
• beautiful minds that can make connections
• become one with the power washing simulator
• behavior can be artful
• blackout poetry = spies doing haiku
• books have definitive ends, the web doesn't
• cast into oblivion
• cats may just have a secret calling as budding web developers
• clinicians and writers thrive when they hone the same skills: empathy and observations
• comedy as a life philosophy
• committing to 5%
• communicate across worlds
• controlled burning for the mind
• conversations with oneself instead of with everything going on in the world
• data of you
• despair provides certainty where hope is scarier
• discrimination is such a waste of time
• distant reiki as social reproductive labor
• don't buy food containers, purchase pickles
• don't mistake information for progress
• don't pass by yourself without wonder
• doubting the internal dictionary
• dressed in cliches
• emergent complexity
• eternally sweaty, warm pillows cursed upon those responsible for this grievance
• even when they're singing they might be cussing
• everybody is pretending
• everyone is an artist until the rent is due
• everything in nature computes
• exercising my back-button rights
• exhaustive to the point of exasperation
• fakely finite
• forever elsewhere
• from 'this book wasn't for me' to 'this book was terrible'
• functioning on fear
• getting and spending
• guilt is counterproductive to progress!
• have you tried having a different life?
• help me remember to forget
• how i like to think
• how much longer are you going to leave it
• humility in the face of the size of this planet
• i care far too much about far too little
• i dream of asking better questions
• i have all the flexibility of a two-by-four
• i like the web but i struggle with semantics
• i swear i'm better in writing
• i want a mysterious form of income
• i want the world
• i'm begging you, create a sitemap for your site. i want it all
• ideas beyond my skill level
• if anyone knows where the years go, i'd like to know
• if i were a short-term accommodation host
• if this is how the story ends, i don't want to know
• if you have a website, you're cool
• if you're going to be sentient, learn to say 'i don't know'
• if you're not loud on the internet you're not there
• in-between time
• inaction can have consequences too
• ingredients you can see and pronounce
• is it us or is it them
• knowing how is not the same as learning how
• life is process and is the process
• magical underthinking
• making stuff is about trying to find what you're looking for
• maybe in another universe i make sense when i speak
• moments turned to postcards
• my sketching is sketchy at best
• no apparent reason for existence
• no one is the boss of time
• normal is not harmful and weird is not counter-productive
• nostalgia is overrated, but i can't help but look backward
• not intuitive, familiar. nothing is intuitive
• notes as assembly
• our culture is built around forgetting
• paring down to build back up
• pay attention to detail: make even the smallest things beautiful
• people ask me why i buy lots of books. i have a genetic disorder where my body doesn't produce enough by itself, so i need to supplement
• performing a sense of self
• preparing for a digital life
• psychological wealth
• rediscovery is as magical as discovery
• release yourself from the role of fixer
• reverse obituary
• she lived and loved. isn't that enough?
• she spoke as though her every sentence had the character limit of a text message
• she'd never wanted to end up like this...but considering everything...it'd been inevitable. she just hadn't seen it.
• shoutout to random drivel
• so much spending is gasping
• sometimes i feel like this might be the last time i feel this good
• songs we've overplayed
• star chart marginalia
• starflung explorers
• stop asking for directions from people who've never been to the places you're going
• success is pressure
• sunlight before screenlight
• tell me something i don't know i don't know
• tell me why i shouldn't record everything i adore? for if i don't, doesn't it get lost?
• that book isn't a book: it's just a pamphlet with aspirations
• the _ for problem solvers
• the bright but fading sun of being mortal
• the coming of stars
• the detritus of civilization
• the extraordinary internet
• the fantasy of the past
• the formula that is tropical house
• the great flattening
• the great thing about my website snowing means i won't fall over going outside
• the hours you lose aren't separate from your life
• the importance of nuance
• the internet relations of organisms
• the more you deny yourself the more you lose yourself
• the only place he seemed suited to was under the stage lights. nothing else burned bright enough for him
• the power to mint links
• the shoe-horn is so long you could put your shoes on from the next room
• the struggle that is a tbr
• the twin suns burn away all pretense
• the web has no end
• the youngest song
• there's never enough time to recover from the world
• there's so much pop i'll never hear
• think it. make it
• thinking in radio
• this could've gone any other way
• this is where i go when i seethe, and this is where i go when i read
• time is a flat circle
• timely timelessness
• to be loved is worth the inconvenience
• trouble every day
• we've got to dream past it
• what about all the australian stories
• what are you doing? the world is falling apart
• what are you seeing? what am i missing?
• what has everyone been making? or even breaking?
• what is a photo but a moment frozen in time?
• what's eating up all the oxygen in the room?
• what's your response to victory?
• where did all the ya books go
• why does a key change shift a song's mood?
• working outside your intelligence
• writers as guides
• you are what you love
• you can thank yourself
• you have a better day if the people around you do too
• you're getting older and i'm getting scared
• you're sentenced to freedom
• your life isn't an optimization problem
• your website is your sandbox

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