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If novelists know anything it’s that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting. At this moment, all over the world—and most recently in America—the conductors standing in front of this human orchestra have only the meanest and most banal melodies in mind… But there is no place on earth where they have not been played at one time or another. Those of us who remember, too, a finer music must try now to play it, and encourage others, if we can, to sing along.
— <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/on-optimism-and-despair/" target="_blank">Zadie Smith</a> (via <a href="http://heidisaman.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">heidisaman</a>)

My Winter Look For 2015

(ed note: this post has been living in my drafts for an entire year)

- Holing up in my bedroom for three months, because the rest of my apartment is freezing

- Using Glossier’s Balm Dotcom to cure my lingering rosecea.

- Not shaving

As of today, July 12th: some things I like, and some things I don't like.

I like: 

- breakthroughs 

- cool dreams with a plot 

- getting my aura photographed & read right next to Tavi Gevinson 

- finally getting back into reading via Patti Smith’s Just Kids 

- Friday night uke sessions 

- sports bras 

- going through memory walks in my mind 

- back to the summers in middle school, high school, freshman year of college. 

- crossing the bridge by car at sunset rom Greenpoint into LIC. 

 - short hair on all girls 

- long hair on me 

- going home 

- deep chats with strangers 

- when the remix is better than the original 

 I don’t like: 

 - how prickly & defensive I get when i receive criticism 

- feeling like a slob most days 

- FOMO about sex 

- overhearing someone getting yelled at 

- when I hang a friend for the first time in a while, and its draining instead of energizing 

- hanging out with terrible couples 

- how I can’t stop myself from oversharing, and being way too honest with people 

- wtf is happening to my skin right now 

- how gifs take 5 minutes to load on my internet connection 

That last one’s a real killer.

le-corbustier