Hi! Do you struggle with activities of daily living due to executive dysfunction, cognitive overload, or brain fog? I do. Autism Grown Up, a non-profit founded by my friend Dr. Tara Regan, sells checklists that can help. Today I bought the shower one.

Want to read: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan 📚

Want to read: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany 📚

🔖 Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) advice on being productive with long COVID is sound for anyone with chronic illness or many other disabilities. As I’m in the middle of some kind of flare due to stress, I’m going to operate in Safe Mode.

Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Angela Carter 📚

New (well, ~40 year old) takes on old fairytales. Gorgeous language.

Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment..

He quotes Rumi:

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

This is now my overarching goal.

Goodnight, everybody.

Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too.

“I will de-intellectualize and re-sensualize my writing practice.” Morgan Parker

Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub 📚

Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time Tomorrow is going on my TBR because I could use a 1996 time travel novel.