A person laughing with their eyes closed, Dutch landscape in the background
  • I am humbled to the fullest extent of the word by Bar Bario, where A. took me in a sheer stroke of luck, and where I felt Black in so the right way and where I made friends, and where I saw myself in everyone.

  • Hey Ornella, as promised a small introduction into the world of personal knowledge management (PKM):

    • PKM helps us collect, classify, save, search, find, and share information
    • By taking atomic notes and densely linking them we can come to new ideas
    • There are many PKM tools available, each very advanced and functionality-rich in their own way
    • The easiest, and cheapest, way to get started with PKM is by downloading Obsidian
    • You may want to download their Windows app
    • If you use a cloud service like Dropbox, you can easily back up your notes
    • I think you may enjoy this article on PKM for researchers
  • I’m humbled by learning that my words are the introduction of someone else’s biography.

  • It feels cliché to phrase it like this, but I feel I witnessed a historic Keti Koti ceremony today, with a surprisingly genuine request for forgiveness by our king. It was a good year for me to finally understand my place in a holiday that’s part mine and part not. The ceremony made up for the hour-long wait in the half rain to get a sandwich for someone who had already gone home. Wan swit’ manspasi!

  • How to care for the injured body,

    the kind of body that can’t hold the content it is living?

    And where is the safest place when that place must be someplace other than in the body?”

  • “We have all the answers. It is the questions we do not know.”

  • Yesterday, someone asked if I’m Jewish, and I said “my partner’s Jewish, and because Judaism sometimes explains much better where I am theologically, I’m Jew-ish” and he said I sounded like most natural, well-rehearsed thing he has heard me say.