Splash No. 253 - Break

Break

It's another one of those weeks where I don't think I have it in me to write an essay. There's not necessarily a reason, other than the fact that I'm tired and the weather was too nice this week for me to think much. Instead, I spent a lot of time over the last few days walking around with very few thoughts in my head. The fog rolled back in this morning, and it felt like the same happened to my brain. After a day of struggling to do much other than my basic work responsibilities and somehow managing to write a draft of an essay for Lens, I played a lot of Zelda and watched wrestling with my roommates. It was a great day, but not one that left me with enough brainpower to write something meaningful here. With more brainpower, maybe I'd talk about something related to knowing your limits and understanding that deeply beyond the platitude leads to a better life. 

Instead, I leave you here with just my recommendations. See you next week!

Drops of the Week
 

• PLAYLIST - New Wave Mix - "I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls is stuck in my head so here's some new wave 

• ARTICLE - "The Dao of Using your Smartphone" by Alan Levinovitz - really interesting take on time spent on phones

• POEM - "Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop" by John Murillo - "Start with loss. Lose everything. Then lose it all again."

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Nikhil