The Secret Of The Golden Flower

[20/100] days of productivity

Worked on my Substack, started reading White Nights by Fëdor Dostoevskij and listened to Aly and Aj's new album.

Summer is here. Time to carry thick books and read them at the park, eat something refreshing and delicious, go on long walks, admire the pretty flowers and get your daily dose of vitamin D.

[9/100] days of productivity

Read...A LOT.

and that's all.

Simone de Beauvoir, from "The Woman Destroyed," originally published in 1967

from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

articles to read instead of doomscrolling.

Demonology

A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield

The Humiliating Act of Falling In Love

How to read a painting

When Horror Is the Truth-teller

Love Is Like Cocaine

Lizzie Siddal: The life of a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel

Joan Didion Against a Performative Life

Women drawing nudes: a history of forbidden bodies

How midlife became a crisis

and more to come!

Then he looked up at her with that awful appeal in his full, glowing eyes. She was utterly incapable of resisting it. From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

[18/100] days of productivity

Did a lot of reading. I'm almost finished with Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates. Such a "traumatic" read, so dark and uncomfortable, but beautifully written. Worked on my Substack. Then went for a little walk at the park.

Sylvia Plath, aged 19, journal entry #124, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated May 15, 1952)

favorite love poems

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

The Kiss by Sara Teasdale

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

Our Story by William Stafford

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats

Why do I love You, Sir? by Emily Dickinson

Her Voice by Oscar Wilde

Love at First Sight by Wisława Szymborska

Echo by Christina Rossetti

Castile by Louise Glück

Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay