"He showed me how to strum and set me free to play. Three strings—past, present, and future—unified in one connective strum. I inhaled deeply to keep from crying. Yes, this is beautiful."
I'm loving one H.P. #Lovecraft#essay. It's translated at the first time to Spanish, so the title in English may be "What Should I Read?"
That's another good guide to read some important books for the new #reader.
Wish I could find that original essay to share to my friends !
Another sunday afternoon for a good reading time. Still with C.S. Lewis book "An Experiment in Criticism". (EPUB version in Spanish)
I'm not into Poetry but I should learn about this and give a try.
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"The real understanding for me, years now in the making, is that a tree in blossom is more than the fruit it yields, more than its own fleeting beauty. It is a network, a living system of relationships."
Past midnight right now. Time for a little reading before I sleep. That chapter looks so interesting: "How The Bad Reader Reads" from C.S. Lewis book: "An Experiment in Criticism". On the round! #reading#NowReading#Philosophy#Essay#CSLewis
In order to treat his Crohn's disease, writer Andrew Chapman had to stop eating for three weeks and get all his nutrition from an IV bag. He writes for @longreads about what he missed in his time without food — social contact, black pepper crabs, roast chicken — and why he became obsessed with watching cooking shows.
I'm Samantha E Xavia, a Trans Woman from Southampton, England. I run my own Instance for my local area 'southampton.social' and am a cofounder of @transpride for Southampton.
I've created videos for over 10 years and now run a Video Editing company @vexdotblue
More info about me will be linked to this one as a Thread, so feel free to read more about me.
One of the biggest things I've always wanted to do was to write a book. I started by writing a small essay on the Fediverse but hope to write a bigger in-depth book that I can truly publish.
"What does it feel like to speak your primary language in an accent from your secondary one? I would later find out."
In today's new Longreads essay, Montserrat Andrée Carty writes about growing up with different languages and cultures—and embracing different versions of herself.
Dickey Betts, cofounder of the Allman Brothers Band, died last week. In this essay for Paste, Matt Mitchell remembers his work on "Eat a Peach" and "Brothers and Sisters." "I contend that, between February 1972 and August 1973, there was no greater rocker walking among us than Dickey Betts," Mitchell writes. "Most musicians would kill to write 'Blue Sky,' 'Jessica' and 'Ramblin’ Man' over the course of a long career; Betts did it in just 16 months’ time, a creative peak few musicians of his caliber, genre and longevity have ever paralleled."
"The maxim 'money doesn’t buy happiness' starts to ring in my head. Not because I actually have money, but because I’m living with the material comforts of someone who does, and it doesn’t seem to make me feel any better."
It's always been hard to make a living as a writer, but in 2024, it's harder than ever. Dirt has published this depressing but essential essay by David Hill, a union organizer turned author, on the grim reality of writing life. "At the time the National Writers Union was founded [in 1981], $1 a word was considered a bare-minimum rate for freelance writing ... Today it is no longer considered the floor, but a ceiling."
"The work is taxing. I stand all day, or walk around and around the worktable. I carry huge sheets of glass to a cutting machine and cut them. I smash unusable pieces loudly into a metal bucket, then tote the bucket to the dumpster out back. My hands grow strong and scarred." —Wendy Brenner for Oxford American
"A thought came into my head, momentarily paralyzing me: these might be your last few minutes. My clumsy gloved hands scrabbled uselessly at the edges of the neoprene trapping me in the boat. As I realized I couldn’t release the spray skirt that way either, panic, regret, and sorrow flooded my brain." For @longreads, Maggie Slepian relates her near-death experience and its aftermath.
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