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I need to die
I beg the gods to let me go
But all they do is hold my throat tighter
Strangling me, consuming my body with pain
But never enough so that the I may finally flat line
Never enough to let me die
– Simran Sethi
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everything is potent, everything is useful
It is these humble moments that are celebrated in the artist and writer Lissa Jensen’s online course Creating the Visual Journal. “Everything we associate with self-reflection is just as likely to be found in the mundane as in the exceptional,” she said. “Honoring the seemingly ‘trivial’ is a way of saying everything is potent, everything is useful.”
Ms. Jensen captures little moments she describes as “personal haikus” through both text and illustration. “A broken window, a vacant gas station at dusk, the calm delight of picking out ripe avocados … their power comes from their insignificance. As anyone who has read fairy tales knows, things are never just what they seem: a mirror is not just a mirror, an apple is not just an apple, the old woman in the forest is not just an old woman.”
The author Dan McAdams explains that these self-reflections are how we make sense of our lives. “Truth,” he writes in “Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self,” “is constructed in the midst of our loving and hating; our tasting, smelling and feeling; our daily appointments and weekend lovemaking; in the conversations we have with those to whom we are closest; and with the strangers we meet on the bus.”
Introspective writing can help reduce blood pressure, increase immune function and mitigate impacts of stress, depression and diseases ranging from to irritable bowel syndrome and breast cancer to asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. But its most enduring value lies in self-discovery: We unearth ourselves through the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
~ Simran Sethi, Why Mundane Moments Truly Matter (The New York Times · March 23, 2020
Simran Sethi, the LA-based director of Netflix international originals, Simran resigned and will leave after the transition period. Netflix is yet to make a formal statement for the matter. Simran Sethi Resigns From Netflix India Role. Netflix Creative Executive Simran Sethi Quits.
We just announced a dozen great events – from our yearly Children's Book Festival to conversations with Simran Sethi, Roxane Gay, Michel Faber, Kelli Jean Drinkwater, Richard Flanagan, Elizabeth Gilbert and more. Plus we'll tackle travel writing, body politics, fashion criticism, the privatisation of space (with excellent science heads including Dianne McGrath, Melbourne's own Mars One contender!) and writing on mothers.
Food for Thought - "Seeds - The Buried Beginnings of Food"; Simran Sethi
“The schisms that we’re experiencing across political divides, socio-economic divides, race, gender and geography obscure the urgency and the cooperation that is required to work together to solve some of our most pressing global problems. In order to transform our world, we have to transform how we engage with each other.”
-Simran Sethi
Simran Sethi - Why and how do we engage? TEDxCibeles
