It’s a challenge to mindfully walk that middle path between being proactive about your health – always trying to improve it – but at the same time, accepting the way you are so that you can make the best of each day.
From Toni Bernhard’s How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness
Is this how I learned stillness?
Illness is the space where I came to understand the limitations of my being. It’s a lesson we all learn but one I learned harshly and twice, first watching my mother and then enduring my own suffering. Now I know that I can lie down for hours without moving. I can meditate. I can stare at the wall and not despair. If I discovered something redemptive in this experience, it’s that capacity for stillness.
Loose fasion
While you’re waiting for the bus
The Transit Pulse of London’s Tube
Black in Middle America | Brevity
Time to unionize customer-facing bankers
know the difference Very important note on fantasy systematics
Bidding Wars for Renters, Not Just Purchasers I don’t care that my current bedroom is so small I had to remove my drawer handles to walk around the bed, I’m not going to move unless I absolutely have to
Anonymous Hacker Explains His Attack On Boston Children’s Hospital. The Yellow Wallpaper is real.
The Difference Between Rationality and Intelligence
I could definitely use rationality training. There’s got to be an app for that…
You Need to Care About Facebook Censoring an Iconic Vietnam War Photo
Loose fashion
heavy linen origami wrap | linenclothingbyanny
Everywhere at the end of time
One of my favorite artists has been diagnosed with early onset dementia and is creating a “series of works exploring dementia, its advance and its totality.”
What’s a grad student worth?
I have a post up today on Tenure, She Wrote about structural financial barriers in academia for chronically ill graduate students.
If a worker is less productive, should they be paid less? This is not an abstract question for me.
As a sick graduate student, I take longer to produce academic products like papers and degrees than the average well graduate student. Instead of the 4-5 years expected for a PhD student here, I’ll likely take 6-7 years. Additionally, my living expenses are higher because of my illness; despite living in a country with socialized medicine, I still have thousands and thousands of dollars a year in uncovered medical expenses.