I am glad that my past self came up with this monthly ritual because as creatures of comfort we are too ingrained in our daily mundane routines to do something out of the ordinary. we can be together in the same house for 24 hours and yet it doesn't mean we spend quality time with each other. she's usually tied up with her creative projects and i'm tied up with my moping. but once a month we set aside everything including our own personal quirks to focus our full attention on each other. i fe...| Winnie Lim
“I have no answers for anything these days. I’m trying to write down details. Remembering. Looking. I’m trying to keep my bearings in the forest of the world as it is now. I’m noting rhythms, I’m trying to catch the wave in my mind, I’m checking my sources.”– Transactions with beauty I relate so much...| Winnie Lim
I've been subscribing to the rss feed of Sekar Writes for a while now – she writes these detailed summaries of books, the kind of summaries I aspire to write myself but I am seldom able to muster the mental capacity to. I don't know how she finds the mental energy to read them and...| Winnie Lim
I guess reading this post is timely for me because I tend to go into bouts of frustrating boredom. But a state of extreme boredom is essential to creativity, according to Craig Mod: When I’m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind...| Winnie Lim
I'm currently reading Humanely Possible by Sarah Blakewell – I liked her previous two books so it wasn't too difficult to pick this one up as well. She devoted quite a few pages about Petrarch. He liked collecting books, except that back then the printing press didn't exist, so he has to manually copy every...| Winnie Lim
completed these some time in march but only had the mind space to post them online now. I think it is a great little mindful exercise for me, and drawing an ugly sketch in these tiny rectangles seem a lot more doable than a regular sketch.| Winnie Lim
I've been manually entering twitter and facebook statuses into obsidian for a long while now, because it is meaningful to review them and reflect on the chasm between my past selves and current self. These social networks are like a black hole, once we publish them we're likely never to see them again unless we...| Winnie Lim
