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Recommended Reading / 05.

Every Monday, words to start the week.


This week: I've always loved these two lists of beliefs, written by Susan Sontag as a child at 14, and as a young adult at 24. The former addresses themes of life and death, freedom, and government; the latter  extols privacy, culture, and old buildings. (Twenty-four-year-old Susan also lists sleeping, children, and meat as likes.) 

I love how the later list contains far fewer words. In many ways, I feel I take life less seriously now than I did at 14 or 15, and have less of an urge (and less time) to explain myself. I've changed in many others ways since then, too, but I do like to think that regardless of age, I'll always believe in adventure, and play, stories, mermaids

(See also: Susan Sontag on love and art and "doing stuff".)

Three more links, just because:
-Hide-and-seek with Momo.
-Mustache protectors and pickle forks: Victorian inventions that never took off.
-"Forget safety."

Photo by Annie Leibovitz. More recommended reading, here.

9 comments:

  1. this is the first time i'm laying eyes on those lists - SO good.

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  2. hahaha...I almost couldn't find Momo in the stuffed animals. And such a great list (as always). I especially love that Rumi quote.

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  3. Love Momo. Gotta get the book.

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  4. So great. What a smart woman.

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  5. Kathy, that one made me laugh out loud :)

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  6. I love the difference in the lists, it's nice to learn to take yourself less seriously :) Also how amazingly cute are those hide and seek photos - eep, definitely had fun hunting Momo down!

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  7. Love the lists. I think I've had a similar change in not taking myself as seriously now as I did ten or twenty years ago. It seems like I keep feeling younger relative to my actual age, and less sure of my own abilities. Hopefully the trend reverses at some point!

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  8. Brain Pickings always has good stuff. It's so fascinating to read other people's journals.

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  9. I love the lists and hide-and-seek with momo!

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