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5 posts published by Sara K. during August 2025| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
5 posts published by Sara K. during August 2025| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
When I look at online spaces for people with dismissive-avoidant attachment, I was surprised to find how often the word ‘aromantic’ came up. I have never seen that word so much anywhere wasn’t a de…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
4 posts published by Sara K. during July 2025| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
We know my dad’s cancer story will end in his death. Unless something else kills him first (infection, bad reaction to chemotherapy, injury due to fall, etc.), he will die by cancer. Though we know the ending, we still don’t … Continue reading →| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Even during the first interview I did with my dad, it was clear friendship played an unusually small role in his life. Later interviews confirmed it. Never has he named a single close friend, and even when I press him … Continue reading →| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Conor Browne says, “Widespread masking amongst the general public is not coming back. You know it and I know it.” The thing is, I don’t actually know that. Conor lives in Northern Ireland. Pretty much every comment I’ve seen from … Continue reading →| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Someone you care about has a mysterious illness. No obvious cause. They are just under the weather, nothing too concerning, except… it’s nothing like a cold, or a flu, or covid, in fact you’ve never seen anyone be ‘under the … Continue reading →| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
My dad has a form of cancer so rare you are more likely to get struck by lightning that get his diagnosis. There isn’t much research specific to this cancer. When we asked his oncologist for a prognosis, the oncologist’s … Continue reading →| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
The other day, I reread “How Can I Be Attracted to People Who Are Bad for Me, If I’m Not Even “Attracted” to Them?!” by VioletEmerald. I am in awe of what a deep and insightful thinker she is all … Continue reading →| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
A few months ago, I noticed that it took me an unusually long time to recall a fact. Then, it happened again, and since then it has been a pattern. Is it aging? Well, maybe, but I didn’t think I … Continue reading →| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
The famous mosaic of Empress Theodora and her court at San Vitale / Photo by Paul Bissegger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / I saw this in person while trying to stay cool during the 2003 hea…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
thoughts I do not want to keep in my head| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
5 posts published by Sara K. during May 2025| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
I’m about two-thirds of the way through We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown. By now, it’s safe to say I’ve read no other novel like it. Given how much I’ve read over my lifetime, I don’t say…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
The new book On the Move by Abrahm Lustgarten is about how people in the United States relocate in response to climate change—including people arriving from the climate-ravaged regions of Central A…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
4 posts published by Sara K. during July 2024| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
4 posts published by Sara K. during March 2025| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
(Continued from Part 4) VIII. To those who are interested in prediction markets, I must throw out this quote as a teaser: Most accounts of the Trinity tes on the early morning of July 17, 1945, rec…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
3 posts published by Sara K. during June 2025| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
The other day on the internet, I saw a comment that said something like this, “I believe it’s going to be AI or bust. Rither AI will save us or destroy us, anything but this long slow march to the …| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
A lot is going on in the world today. Ukraine recently attacked Russian nuclear bombers, which violates Russia’s nuclear doctrine and, per Russian law, seems to be a ‘first strike’ that justifies n…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
4 posts published by Sara K. during February 2025| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
This blog has never been just about asexuality, but it was a major topic here for many years, but not so much in recent times. Asexuality isn’t something I think about much anymore. Oh, and the one…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Last week, a tornado blew through St. Louis, and hit both the wealthiest and the poorest neighborhoods. I am shocked it took me days to find out this happened, and that I learned about it not throu…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
In this interview, Matthew Immergut, one of the co-authors of The Mind Illuminated, says that they were working on the book, John Yates / Culadasa (the main author) was sick. He’d been sick for yea…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
I sometimes alpha/beta-read for fiction authors, and sometimes they self-publish those novels. I was a little late to getting around to beta-reading a manuscript I’d agreed to look at, and the auth…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Lately, I’ve seen a few videos about how South Korea’s low birth rate will lead to a shrinking population. So far, very straightforward. These videos then explain how this will cause economic probl…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
One of my major takeaways from On the Move is that San Francisco is going to become way more crowded and expensive. According to the maps and charts the book presents, San Francisco will not fare t…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Overall, my meditation journey since I started following the instructions in The Mind Illuminated has been swifter and smoother than I expected in the beginning. Sometimes I think, gosh, if I’d sta…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Tesla’s stock value is plummeting due to falling sales, and Elon Musk’s net worth is falling with it. Some people see this as an opportunity to buy Tesla at a low price so they can profit if/when i…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
During Trump’s first term, when stock markets reacted badly to his economic policies, he adjusted. That’s not happening now, so far. That shows that he has lost competence. Also during his first te…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
I feared that the second Trump administration would be worse than the first because Trump and/or his cronies would be better prepared to implement their vile agenda. Instead, the second Trump admin…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
A school-aged child has recently died of measles in Texas. The child was unvaccinated. HHS Secretary Kennedy’s response is that measles outbreaks happen every year. He has also been campaigning for…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Last year, my mom showed me an opinion piece that recommended cutting 10% of the San Francisco government’s workforce. It’s a terrible idea. Well, let me qualify that. If a group of people a) had t…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
The Mind Illuminated describes ‘dullness’ as one of things people work through in meditation. It’s basically moments when the mind blanks out. It can be ‘gross’ dullness, which leads to sleep, or ‘…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Yesterday, I bought a couple of new plants for my backyard. By the time I got home, it was near sunset, and since I had something I needed to do urgently, I didn’t get around to attending to the pl…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Recently, I received a load of wood chip mulch, and with the help of some awesome neighbors, I moved it to the backyard. That was hard work, y’all. Yet we only moved the wood chip mulch less than t…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
The book On the Move explained how withdrawal of home insurance due to climate change risks will cause some homes to be uninsurable. Since insurance is a requirement for a mortgage, this will cause…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Just a few minutes before I started writing this post, I found out that some new wildfires have just gotten started on the edge of the Los Angeles Basin. Anyone who has been paying attention to wil…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Seeing so many comments from Democrat voters about how they will rejoice if the undocumented immigrant relatives of Latinos who voted for Trump get deported has made obvious something I’ve known fo…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
Lately, I’ve been seeing many people claim that the Trump administration will gut democracy to the extent that there won’t be a 2028 presidential election. Democracy in the United States is very mu…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
So, last week I published a blog post where I said I expected to stay in The Mind Illuminated’s “stage two” of meditation for at least a few more months. Mere days later, I broke through into “stag…| The Notes Which Do Not Fit
