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2021-09-18 ○ last updated: 2024-07-19

Description


This is my personal website. I created it primarily for experiential use as a centralized knowledge/content base and as an outlet for my increasingly erratic thoughts and curiosities. I hope that it will be a comprehensible introduction into some of the machinations of my mind, and I hope that you will enjoy your stay here! For information about me, see the About me page; for information about the purpose and design of this site, see the About this site page; to contact me, email me at janicel375@gmail.com.

Recently Updated Posts


In Memoriam

2024-07-16 ○ last updated: 2024-07-16 ○ topics: writing, poetry, love

A salute to two men

The Fall

2024-03-11 ○ last updated: 2024-03-11 ○ topics: writing, poetry, fear, uncertainty

A roach in shallow guise

The Universe Entire

2024-02-13 ○ last updated: 2024-02-13 ○ topics: writing, perspective

A short story about perspective

Ave Solis

2024-02-13 ○ last updated: 2024-02-13 ○ topics: writing, poetry, sun

A Sapphic ode to the glory of a Sun

the new Spring rose

2024-02-13 ○ last updated: 2024-02-13 ○ topics: writing, poetry, love

As such is Love, as such is Life

Content consumption queue

2021-10-04 ○ last updated: 2023-10-10 ○ topics: notes

A note to keep track of what I should read/watch/listen to next

October 10th, 2023

2023-10-10 ○ last updated: 2023-10-10 ○ topics: journal

Journal entry for 2022-10-10

Towards a collaboratively-constructed conceptual map

2023-10-05 ○ last updated: 2023-10-05 ○ topics: essays, psychology, education, learning, assimilation-theory, ausubel

A potential application of Ausubel’s assimilation theory

Dream journal

2021-10-03 ○ last updated: 2023-05-25 ○ topics: notes, dreams, personal, liminality, subconscious

A log of my more memorable dreams in reverse-chronological order

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt; The Sirens of Titan (1959)

2023-02-04 ○ last updated: 2023-02-04 ○ topics: notes, kurt vonnegut, science fiction, purpose

Notes on The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt; Cat's Cradle (1963)

2023-01-31 ○ last updated: 2023-01-31 ○ topics: notes, kurt vonnegut, science fiction, irony, science, religion

Notes on Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt; Breakfast of Champions (1973)

2023-01-28 ○ last updated: 2023-01-28 ○ topics: notes, kurt vonnegut, metafiction, kilgore trout, science fiction, free will, schizophrenia, solipsism, irony

Notes on Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Suzuki, Shunryū; Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970)

2023-01-26 ○ last updated: 2023-01-26 ○ topics: notes, lectures, zen, buddhism, mindfulness

Notes on Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryū Suzuki

December 31st, 2022

2022-12-31 ○ last updated: 2022-12-31 ○ topics: journal

Journal entry for 2022-12-31

December 29th, 2022

2022-12-29 ○ last updated: 2022-12-29 ○ topics: journal

Journal entry for 2022-12-29

December 23rd, 2022

2022-12-23 ○ last updated: 2022-12-23 ○ topics: journal

Journal entry for 2022-12-23

November 23rd, 2022

2022-11-23 ○ last updated: 2022-11-23 ○ topics: journal

Journal entry for 2022-11-23; eleven lines

A collection of bathroom epigraphs

2022-07-25 ○ last updated: 2022-08-22 ○ topics: notes

The words of prophets are written on bathroom walls

Kafka, Franz; Investigations of a Dog (1922)

2022-08-22 ○ last updated: 2022-08-22 ○ topics: notes, investigations of a dog, kafka, franz, philosophy, absurdism

Notes on Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt; Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

2022-08-04 ○ last updated: 2022-08-04 ○ topics: notes, kurt vonnegut, slaughterhouse-five, war, world war ii, time, science fiction, irony

Notes on Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

May 5th, 2022

2022-05-05 ○ last updated: 2022-06-25 ○ topics: journal, tension, flow, beauty, color

Journal entry for 2022-05-05; a tense grip; a divine scene; semantics of color

April 17th, 2022

2022-04-17 ○ last updated: 2022-05-08 ○ topics: journal, impermanence

Journal entry for 2022-04-17; two encounters; impermanence and beauty

April 14th, 2022

2022-04-14 ○ last updated: 2022-05-06 ○ topics: journal, youth, habituation, attention, cognitive dissonance, alice in wonderland

Journal entry for 2022-04-14; youth and longing; habituation; tasting life; attention; a dissonant existence

Carroll, Lewis; Alice in Wonderland (1865)

2022-04-18 ○ last updated: 2022-05-02 ○ topics: notes, lewis carroll, alice in wonderland, fantasy

Notes on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

A collection of kōans

2022-04-17 ○ last updated: 2022-04-17 ○ topics: notes, zen, buddhism

Kōans that I find thought-provoking

Kafka, Franz; The Trial (1915)

2021-10-01 ○ last updated: 2022-04-17 ○ topics: notes, the trial, kafka, franz, philosophy, absurdism

Notes on The Trial by Franz Kafka, translated by Breon Mitchell

Sapolosky, Robert; Human Behavioral Biology

2022-04-16 ○ last updated: 2022-04-16 ○ topics: notes, lectures, biology, evolution

Notes on Robert Sapolosky's lecture series on human behavioral biology

April 13th, 2022

2022-04-13 ○ last updated: 2022-04-13 ○ topics: journal, dreams

Journal entry for 2022-04-13; a dream; guilt about eating meat

April 10th, 2022

2022-04-10 ○ last updated: 2022-04-10 ○ topics: journal, cognition, loneliness, uncertainty

Journal entry for 2022-04-10; a bird's love life; cognition; a slight descent into madness

Nhat Hahn, Thich; The Miracle of Mindfulness

2022-04-07 ○ last updated: 2022-04-07 ○ topics: notes, buddhism, thich nhat hahn, mindfulness, religion

Notes on The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hahn

March 5th, 2022

2022-03-05 ○ last updated: 2022-03-05 ○ topics: journal, the Crisis, cognition, for the good times

Journal entry for 2022-03-05; thoughts on the Crisis; thinking about thoughts; For the Good Times

About me.

2021-09-18 ○ last updated: 2021-10-14 ○ topics: autobiographical

Information about me; what I'm up to now; current interests and favorites; major influences; how to contact me

About this site.

2021-09-18 ○ last updated: 2021-10-14 ○ topics: meta

Information about this site; the structure, purpose, philosophy, and inspiration; implementation details; to-dos

October 14th, 2021

2021-10-14 ○ last updated: 2021-10-14 ○ topics: journal, life update, childhood, the Crisis, interconnectivity

Journal entry for 2021-10-14; A Wind in the Door; relativity; interconnectivity

October 12th, 2021

2021-10-12 ○ last updated: 2021-10-12 ○ topics: journal, tennis, zooming out, the Crisis, oneness

Journal entry for 2021-10-12; BNP Paribas Open; zooming out; oneness of humanity

September 30th, 2021

2021-09-30 ○ last updated: 2021-10-01 ○ topics: journal, life update, the trial, kafka, franz, the Crisis, mother, father, songs from the arc of life, capgras

Journal entry for 2021-09-30; life update; finished The Trial; other random thoughts

October 1st, 2021

2021-10-01 ○ last updated: 2021-10-01 ○ topics: journal, the trial, kafka, franz, ms. lauryn hill

Journal entry for 2021-10-01; more thoughts on The Trial; connections to Mystery of Iniquity by Ms. Lauryn Hill