A great book doesn’t take you away from the world—it brings you back to the world you were torn from.

Reading isn’t an escape—it’s a reckoning.

Rereading is training, practice for remaking and unmaking—and, yes, razing—the world. Rereading draws your best thoughts close, keeps them at the ready, prepares you to think thoughts with them, prepares you to act with them at hand. Your favorite reads are your armor and your weapons and your shelter all in one. What have you gathered about you? What has taken root in your mind? What thoughts are you thinking with?

— @aworkinglibrary , The case for rereading

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/case-for-rereading

#Books #Reading #Life #Lenses #MentalModels

#books, #reading, #life, #lenses, #mentalmodels

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent

— Marwan Makhoul
via https://www.tumblr.com/holyfigtree/731005660088745984

#mjbPoetry #Poetry #Palestine #Gaza

#mjbpoetry, #poetry, #palestine, #gaza

#RIP #JaneGoodall

#rip, #janegoodall

I learned something very beautiful
today, In French, “bibliothèque
intérieure” means your “inner library”
the invisible shelf you carry inside,
filled with every story that’s ever
shaped you.

All the books you’ve loved, the
heartbreaks you’ve survived, the
random quotes that stuck, the
memories that built you. They all live
there. Quietly reminding you of who
you are and how far you’ve come.

— thirdeye.spiritual on instagram via https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/09/23/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-3/

#Books #Reading #Poetry #Life

#books, #reading, #poetry, #life

The en dash responds …

P.S. And for the record: I am not a whore. I am a matchmaker. Ask any calendar.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-the-gap-between-knowing-and-saying-the-en-dash-responds-to-the-em-dash

You think I showed up with ChatGPT?
Mary Shelley used me… gratuitously.
Dickinson? Obsessed.
David Foster Wallace built a temple of footnotes in my name.

I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph.

I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.

P.S. You’re probably thinking of the en dash. That whore has always been suspicious.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

The people I grew up with

have doctorates
have children
have spouses
have divorces

have careers
have died
have lived

and me? I have done
some of the dishes

— David M Briggs
via https://www.tumblr.com/persephonelovesbooks/795664395311169536

#mjbPoetry #Poetry #Pensive #Poem #Life

#mjbpoetry, #poetry, #Pensive, #poem, #life

Ae Bhai Zara Dekh Ke Chalo 🎷🎺

#Jazz #IndianJazz #BollyJazz #MannaDey #mjbMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHC3qfwVhBc

#jazz, #IndianJazz, #BollyJazz, #MannaDey, #mjbmusic

My experience with @dabeaz’s Ruckus course.
What a week it was!

https://janusworx.com/work/make-a-ruckus-001/

#Rust #Ruckus #mjbWrites

#rust, #ruckus, #mjbwrites

Time management isn’t about time at all.
It’s about priorities.

— @ColleenDoran

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/motivation-monday

#TimeManagement #Priorities #Life

#timemanagement, #priorities, #life