Life after 36
There’s a magnificent Turkish poet, Cahit Sitki Taranci, who said that 35 is “halfway through the road.” The poem that laments the loss of youth and recognizes the creeping existential dread that one feels as the concept of their mortality becomes increasingly real. Taranci’s verses address the physical changes in the mirror, the loss of feeling, the constant worry and day-to-day struggle, and the hard truths that one discovers as one ages. My favorite verse, and one I agree with: “I discover...
LA or New York?
A question that stuck with me for days after the two times I’ve visited LA: should I move here? While I was in LA, I experienced this question as a certainty. I belonged in LA. Everything about it fundamentally nourished me: from the sun to the coffeeshops where no one was in a rush, where people called each other by their name and healthy options were the default rather than something you had to seek out. Plus, there was Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Erewhon’s breakfast burritos and the palm-li...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: Is it better to forget?
The most recent book I finished is Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, in which an elderly Briton couple leave their village to visit a son who they have not seen in years. This is a perilous journey in post-Roman Britain, where distances are yet unconquered by advanced transportation, and where people are frail. Still, the story hints that the couple is strong for their age yet, and devoted to each other. There is one quirk: the couple is missing their memories, owing to a dragon’s spell cast...
Discovering, remembering, and clarifying my thoughts through writing. Writing to find joy.
Life after 36
There’s a magnificent Turkish poet, Cahit Sitki Taranci, who said that 35 is “halfway through the road.” The poem that laments the loss of youth and recognizes the creeping existential dread that one feels as the concept of their mortality becomes increasingly real. Taranci’s verses address the physical changes in the mirror, the loss of feeling, the constant worry and day-to-day struggle, and the hard truths that one discovers as one ages. My favorite verse, and one I agree with: “I discover...
LA or New York?
A question that stuck with me for days after the two times I’ve visited LA: should I move here? While I was in LA, I experienced this question as a certainty. I belonged in LA. Everything about it fundamentally nourished me: from the sun to the coffeeshops where no one was in a rush, where people called each other by their name and healthy options were the default rather than something you had to seek out. Plus, there was Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Erewhon’s breakfast burritos and the palm-li...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: Is it better to forget?
The most recent book I finished is Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, in which an elderly Briton couple leave their village to visit a son who they have not seen in years. This is a perilous journey in post-Roman Britain, where distances are yet unconquered by advanced transportation, and where people are frail. Still, the story hints that the couple is strong for their age yet, and devoted to each other. There is one quirk: the couple is missing their memories, owing to a dragon’s spell cast...
Discovering, remembering, and clarifying my thoughts through writing. Writing to find joy.
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A year into learning about crypto, I am still very much a noob. Mirror is one of the projects that made me want to move beyond the theoretical and superficial, to putting myself out there.
For someone who has always loved to write, and always been scared to express herself fully, it provides a new way to share, crystallize, and clarify my thoughts.
I am moved by the magic in the day-to-day. I would like to use Mirror to absorb and document moments worth living through words.
Moments worth capturing, like most good things in life, are fleeting and ephemeral. They get lost within our memories, warped by our perceptions, and live on statically among ever-crowded pictures in social media platforms.
Writing offers the ability to slow down and process them. Writing on Mirror offers an outlet, an opportunity for creativity, an immutable record of what is worth capturing. I will create short vignettes, pictures painted with words, of such moments from my life.
Maybe what I share, think, and feel will resonate with others. Maybe just the act of writing will offer a different perspective. At the minimum, it will remind me to get out of my comfort zone.
A year into learning about crypto, I am still very much a noob. Mirror is one of the projects that made me want to move beyond the theoretical and superficial, to putting myself out there.
For someone who has always loved to write, and always been scared to express herself fully, it provides a new way to share, crystallize, and clarify my thoughts.
I am moved by the magic in the day-to-day. I would like to use Mirror to absorb and document moments worth living through words.
Moments worth capturing, like most good things in life, are fleeting and ephemeral. They get lost within our memories, warped by our perceptions, and live on statically among ever-crowded pictures in social media platforms.
Writing offers the ability to slow down and process them. Writing on Mirror offers an outlet, an opportunity for creativity, an immutable record of what is worth capturing. I will create short vignettes, pictures painted with words, of such moments from my life.
Maybe what I share, think, and feel will resonate with others. Maybe just the act of writing will offer a different perspective. At the minimum, it will remind me to get out of my comfort zone.
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