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This is such a beautiful, poignant, thoughtful piece: 46 books by @ben@werd.social

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🥾another beautiful hike in the snow.

The woods: bare trees in snowy ground. A small creek runs across studded with snow covered rocks.

The woods: a gray sky in the background. Bare deciduous trees stand tall on either side of a small creek. Snow covers the ground.

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Currently reading: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 📚

“Truly creative individuals are those who succeed, against all pressures of instinct and wordly wisdom, in visualizing a way of life that will make the lot of others freer and happier. …The idea of free will is a self-fulfilling prophecy; those who abide by it are liberated from the absolute determinism of external forces.”

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👉 Currently reading: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 📚

While striving to change the course of history we cannot wish away the constraints that the past has burdened us with; to do so would lead only to frustration and disillusion. Knowledge of these forces that determine consciousness and action, however, can make it possible for us to become liberated from them: to become free to decide what to think, what to feel, and how to act.

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Art is the way anniemueller.com/posts/art…

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False equivalencies anniemueller.com/posts/fal…

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“I’m not upside-down—YOU’RE upside-down.”

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What courage feels like anniemueller.com/posts/wha…

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What to worry about anniemueller.com/posts/wha…

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I really like @tracydurnell’s rules for where reading attention goes:

1: Choose what to read based on my interest, not “to be an informed person”
2: Be skeptical of titles that invoke fear; be wary of articles framed to make me feel superior to others
3: Prioritize information that will directly impact my life or community; pay less attention to news outside my control

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Do you dabble? Meander? Peruse and putter? anniemueller.com/posts/do-…

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Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

It’s scary to confront the truth that almost everything worth doing… depends on cooperating with others, and therefore on exposing yourself to the emotional uncertainties of relationship. …The more individual sovereignty you achieve over your time, the lonelier you get.

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Love letters 6-8 anniemueller.com/posts/lov…

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Some work-related books I’m bookmarking to check out this year:

Happy to get other recommendations if you have them.

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Success!

(It took 3 hours)

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A good day to tackle this. How long will it take me to put it together? 2 hours, 5 hours, all night, until next month? Who knows!!

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Anticipation, experience, satisfaction anniemueller.com/posts/ant…

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📋 Good advice for somebody anniemueller.com/posts/goo…

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One bucket at a time anniemueller.com/posts/one…

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“You weren’t planning to read this book, were you? No? You were planning to pet me? Good, that’s what I thought.”

A black cat with green eyes is sitting on top of an open book. The book is on a woman’s outstretched legs. The woman is wearing black leggings and sitting on a brown couch.