Did not finish: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara 📚
Beautifully written. After 400+ pgs of almost non-stop trauma, this book was actively making me unhappy so I set it aside. Definitely search around for content warnings before reading.
Picture of the view from my deck didn’t seem to actually end up attached to the post about working from the deck. Whoops!
Working on the deck in summer always feels like working in a treehouse.
Went to apply for passports for myself & M today and the passport person just wasn’t there, didn’t contact the people with appointments to reschedule or anything and I’m rather angry and frustrated because this is not a quick or easy process.
My legs started getting medically-restless by 4 pm today. I didn’t have caffeine after 2 or so, took a warm bath with epsom salt & essential oil, took 900mg magnesium orally & 400 topically None of it seems to have helped. All tense & tingly. Chronic illness is for the birds.
Is there space for robust research-practice partnerships in the time of COVID, or are people too tired for this kind of long-term collaboration?
💬📚 “It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try.” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
💬📚 “This was not what he thought acting would be, but what had he known about what acting would be?” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
💬📚 “…he was an optimist. Every month, every week, he chose to open his eyes, to live another day in the world.” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
💬📚 “He felt in those minutes his body’s treason… that he would be betrayed by it again and again, that he could expect nothing from it and yet had to keep maintaining it.” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life