Me to my student: You need to pare things down. Just, like, Marie Kondo this whole paragraph. Student, softly to herself: Does this clause spark joy??

EXCELLENT WRITING ADVICE

Decor aesthetic goal for my future home: “the village witch lives here, but she’s a good witch. probably. we think.”

there’s a ton of shit you can get in life if you’re willing to submit yourself to the mortifying horror of asking for it.

Try stuff. Put plants in your room even if you aren’t the best at caring for them. Attempt that dessert recipe even if it turns out ugly. Listen to that music you’ve been meaning to try for a while. The world is full of infinite sources of goodness and the best thing to do it to try and find as many as possible.

DAMN OKAY! THANK YOU FOR THIS BEAUTY

The quietly desperate work culture of “I hate Mondays”, “thank god it’s Friday”, “working for the weekend”, and similar nonsense is deeply disgusting, and I hate that it’s seen as normal.  We are burning away 70% of our lives waiting for the 30% where we can recuperate from work and actually live for a little while.  This is absolutely not the way life is supposed to be.  This is obscene.