FYI #60
Embroidered Ceramic Vessels by Caroline Harrius Merge Disparate Crafts, via Colossal. From Harrius’ Blue Memories exhibition
Writing As Transformation, by Louise Gluck, via the New Yorker… ‘I came to have a sense that the self I was in the world, among other selves, was alternately precarious and invisible. I did not think speech was a good conduit to the self, or expression of it, because in my childhood it was not. The page was different. Here my voice had a stability and an immutability, qualities that I passionately craved and never remotely approached in my social interactions. How could I? Stability and immutability are not characteristics of the spoken word.’
Jason Blum on Smartless
Anyone can meditate - even you, Dan Harris has been hosting a New Year meditation challenge, with some of his favourite teachers
On the same theme… Five Keys To A Sustainable Meditation Practice, by Ethan Nichtern
My grandparents’ lamp, by Kyle Chayka, via One Thing
An interior designer's refreshingly pared-back London flat, via House & Garden
Prayer for the new year, by Courtney Martin, including ‘May we unabashedly admit when we are moved by things. May we write fan letters and thank you notes and pay artists when they make art that changes us.’
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025. I’ve add a few books to my list of things to keep an eye out for.. including new ones by Bonnie Tsui, Colum McCann, Natasha Brown, Susan Orlean, Vauhini Vara, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Maggie Nelson.
Transcript: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Major Changes to Meta's Content Moderation Policies and Operations, via Tech Policy Press.
Just finished reading.. Pond, by Claire-Louise Bennett
Just started reading… Victoria Chang’s book of poems, ‘with my back to the world’, inspired by the work of Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004)