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

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 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

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

My version of Keep Calm and Carry On

#Books #Reading #Life #Coping

#books, #reading, #life, #coping

When Cabanel finally graduated and returned to Paris as a professional painter, he had already received nearly *sixteen years* of focused, intense education on art and art alone.

I’d kill for that. Or, at least sacrifice a goat for it.

You can graduate from medical school and be operating on patients in less time than that artist studied how to paint that angel.

— @ColleenDoran
( in her latest, The Education of an Artist
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-education-of-an-artist )

#Art #Life #Practice

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113054934032699927

#art, #life, #practice

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone.

This is why art is important.
Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

— James Baldwin
via, @thenightlymirror on Tumblr: https://thenightlymirror.tumblr.com/post/741802282358882304/james-baldwin

#Art #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112992437715911677

#art, #life

Big giant list of tutorials for life skills via #PeterMorwood

https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/757358802994708481/missmentelle-this-is-a-big-giant-list-of-youtube

#Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112874519022474103

#PeterMorwood, #life

It’s an innately human thing to do. Hope!
Today’s blow your mind philosophical/biological thread of the day!

That is an absolutely bonkers pitch, by the way, and everyone thought you were a showoff, even before the opposable thumbs. When the winter came, and the winter of winters, and the rain was acid and the air was poison on the tender shells of their eggs and choked the children in the shells; when the plants turned to poison, and the ocean turned against you all; when the climate changed, and the world’s children fell to shadow; your internal ocean was it that held true. A bet laid against the changing fates, a bet laid by a small beast against climate and geography and the forces of outer space, that you won. The dinosaurs fell and the pterosaurs fell and the marine reptiles dwindled, and you, furthest-child, least-looked-for, long-range-spaceship, held hope internally at 37.5 degrees. Which is another thing that humans do, sometimes.

— elodieunderglass on Tumblr
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/756925146317602816/gallusrostromegalus-derinthescarletpescatarian

I learn so much thanks to @dianeduane!

#Biology #Philosophy #Hope #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112845803442176796

#biology, #philosophy, #hope, #life

Drucker’s subsequent description of the insensate labor of unskilled men in factories draws almost entirely from Taylor’s portrait of them—and accordingly condescends to their abilities to plan and organize work. In actual fact, it wasn’t so. Before Taylor, work was already organized by teams of factory workers, who in large part had control over how they worked. The knowledge they applied to work was largely “tacit” in nature, agreed upon among workers themselves rather than “explicit” (to borrow a famous definition from the sociologist Michael Polanyi). What Taylor sought in particular—indeed, what constituted his signal obsession—was to extract this tacit knowledge and install it in another set of people, the “industrial engineers.” Drucker called them “the prototype of all modern ‘knowledge workers’”—a plausible assumption but one that excised the tremendous amount of knowledge that already existed in the work process.

it’s even better to acknowledge that there never were any knowledge workers.
There have only ever been workers

— @aworkinglibrary
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/knowledge-workers

#Work #Life

(as someone who began his work life on the factory floor, cleaning CNC machines, and have slowly moved along the spectrum of work to now doing devops, I’ve experienced every single inch of the journey above. )

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112794289198355889

#work, #life