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“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

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THE WHITE LOTUS 3.05 "Denials"

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Kappe House,1968, by Ray Kappe. Photography © Jason Schmidt

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Lakeside condos, Garden Grove, California, 1982. Photos by Julius Shulman, © J. Paul Getty Trust.

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Akira Kurosawa's Hand-painted Storyboards for 'Ran' (1985)

Homecoming

Telemachus felt something enter his spine when his father threaded the ax-heads, victorious arrow quivering in the wall, and a small cry escaped him when, without pausing, the old man fit another shaft onto the string and shot Antinoos between the nipples. And so it began for Telemachus, the deep, swirling momentum; some power slipping him on like a skin, and him mad with it; hiss of sword-stroke; father and son working the cowering suitors, the one stalking, the other cutting off escape, until the stone floors were slippery red. But finally, when he thought it was over, his righteousness spent, and the weeping servant girls on their hands and knees were sopping up the blood, he leaned on his sword, tried to fit his dream of the man gone twenty years over the gore-soaked beard and chest before him.

And then his father looked around, and scarce believing there was no one left to kill, smiled at his son.

-- from Doug Anderson's The Moon Reflected Fire

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The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Luca Giordano, 1666

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“Do it scared” “do it alone” are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you’re getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don’t need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don’t need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it’s okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.