• Clemson, SC
  • Table Rock, NC
jan 9 2021 ∞
jan 9 2021 +
  • Wake up and go to bed at the same time
  • Weight training 3-4x per week
  • Walk or bike in the sunlight
  • No sugar during the week
  • Time with God in the morning
may 30 2020 ∞
jun 3 2020 +
mar 21 2020 ∞
mar 23 2020 +
  • Sugar Blues by William Dufty
  • Silence and Honeycakes by Rowan Williams
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
  • Welcome to the Orthodox Church by Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • A Place of Healing for the Soul by Peter France
  • Shop Class As Soul Craft by Matthew B. Crawford
jan 21 2020 ∞
dec 5 2020 +
  • Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Beaufort, South Carolina
  • Cashiers, NC
  • Highlands, NC
  • Gastonia, NC
  • Litchfield, SC
  • Brevard, NC
  • Charleston, SC
jan 20 2020 ∞
jan 9 2021 +
  • pity this busy monster, manunkind by ee cummings
  • to be of use by marge piercy
  • suppose by ee cummings
  • ozymandias by percy bysshe shelley
  • the lake isle of innisfree by w. b. yeats
  • the summer day by mary oliver
  • laying small ghosts by virginia m. mohlere
  • the two-headed calf by laura crafton gilpin
  • if your nerve, deny you-- by emily dickinson
  • Pavlov was the son of a priest by Paige Lewis
  • die vreugde van die alledaagse by sophia van taak
  • The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary Oliver
  • High Flight by John Gillespie Magee
jan 11 2019 ∞
jan 27 2021 +
  • Churchill and Orwell by Thomas Ricks
  • Ways of Escape by Graham Greene
  • I Am the Wolf by Mark Lanegan
  • Roman Tales by Moravia
  • True Grit by Charles Portis
  • Between Meals by A. J. Liebling
  • The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
  • Daniel Woodrell
  • A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
  • Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius
  • The Quiet American by Graham Greene
  • How to Live by Sarah Bakewell

authors

  • Lydia Lunch
  • William T. Vollmann
  • Elmore Leonard
  • Edward St. Aubyn
  • W.T. Tyler
jan 3 2019 ∞
jan 20 2020 +
  • If This is Man by Primo Levi
  • Blood and Champagne by Alex Kershaw
  • In Search of Identity by Anwar El Sadat
  • Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
  • Adrift by Steven Callahan
  • The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
  • Stoner by John Williams
  • The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin
  • A Great Aridness by William deBuys
  • The Quiet Warrior by Thomas B. Buell
  • The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
  • Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
oct 28 2018 ∞
may 14 2020 +
  • The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
  • The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • The Waves by Virginia Woolf
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton
  • The Demon of Our Time by Jonah Peleus
  • The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
  • A Tale of Two Gardens by Octavio Paz
  • The Sovereign Sun by Odysseas Elytis
  • The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  • By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini
  • Green Days by the River by Michael Anthony
  • Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
mar 26 2018 ∞
sep 4 2020 +
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
  • The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
  • A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
  • The Passing of Grandison by Charles Chesnutt
  • The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • West With the Night by Beryl Markham
  • Dream Differently: Candid Advice for America’s Students by Dr. Vince Bertram
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
  • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Peop...
dec 20 2017 ∞
jan 20 2020 +
  • Between Worlds: Essays on Culture and Belonging by Marilyn R. Gardner
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Quiet by Susan Cain
  • My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
  • Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
  • The Secret History by Donna Tart
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer
  • The Breakfast by John Steinbeck
  • The Snake by John Steinbeck
  • Leaf by Niggle by JRR Tolkein
  • The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith
dec 20 2017 ∞
jan 20 2020 +
  • If I want to converse with impressive people, then I myself must appear in all aspects impressive, even if that means having an outward front that exudes knowledge and impressiveness to get me "through the door"
  • My desire for hard work needs to be supported with practical habits
  • I must work on articulating myself out loud
  • I must not leave my weaknesses be simply because they are inherent
  • I must figure out a coping mechanism that will allow me to perform well when I am in the "trenches"
  • I must have a nourishing effect on people I speak to
may 28 2017 ∞
may 28 2017 +
  • linen men's shirts in white and cream
  • block-heel camel coloured leather boots
  • faded light blue flared jeans with frayed hems
  • faded shift dresses in orange and blue
  • gold hoops
  • tousled french braid
  • off the shoulder sundress
  • for school days: monochrome shorts and waist-cropped shirt outfits in pastels (white, black, baby pink and blue)
mar 12 2017 ∞
jan 20 2020 +
  • early morning meditative walks
  • refuse food if it is not good fuel
  • read whenever possible
  • sunday night self care
  • spend new year's eve with companions or doing something you enjoy
  • reduce phone usage
jan 4 2017 ∞
jan 4 2017 +
  • The Sick Man (1881) by Vasili Maximov
  • The Wounded Poacher (1881) by Harry Jones Thaddeus
  • Flevit super illam(He wept over it)by Enrique Simonet⏤1892
  • Sternschnuppen by Franz von Stuck
  • The Evening Star by Andre Edouard Marty
jan 13 2021 ∞
jan 30 2021 +
jan 2 2021 ∞
jan 2 2021 +
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell
  • Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
  • The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
  • The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
  • Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3)by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • Modern Man in Search of A Soul by Carl Jung
  • Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson
  • A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) by Mircea Eliade
jun 22 2020 ∞
jun 22 2020 +
  • replace thermostat housing
  • wax
  • door panel inserts
  • carpet deep clean
  • sun shade
  • new tires
  • fix handbrake tensioner
  • SLP Power-Flo Axle-Back Exhaust
  • brighter headlight and foglight bulbs
  • ding repair
  • radiator covers
  • paint chip repair
  • engine clean
  • new windshield wipers
  • new rearview mirror
  • fix headlight glaze
  • red cabin lights
  • new shifter
may 8 2020 ∞
jan 9 2021 +
  • superfood smoothie: egg yolks, kefir, low-sugar fruit OR raw honey, bee pollen, collagen, a little raw frozen liver (if ur brave)
  • clear oxtail soup (soak oxtails for 1-3 hours in water, drain, boil for 15 min, drain, cover with water and add onion, garlic, and ginger, and simmer for 4 hours. serve with rice, scallions, and salt)
mar 20 2020 ∞
jan 9 2021 +
  • Plant sunflower row
  • Knit a blanket
  • that multi-layer gucci skirt but 3/4 rather than full length
  • next year lent: embroider bay leaves on a fabric square. each square should be different patterns, but majorly red. one square for each day of lent, and then sew it together at the end to make a quilt
  • hannah lee duggan's dress
  • cotton soft tie dyed napkins
feb 25 2020 ∞
jan 9 2021 +
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
  • Little Women (2019)
  • Pride and Prejudice (2005)
  • The Right Stuff (1983)
  • The King (2019)
  • Honeyland (2019)
  • The Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
  • Ford v Ferrari (2019)
  • Troop Zero
  • Howls Moving Castle (2004)
jan 20 2020 ∞
jan 2 2021 +
  • The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  • The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith
  • Brain over Binge by Kathryn Hansen
may 13 2019 ∞
jan 20 2020 +
  • Baby Driver (2017)
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
  • all the fuckin twilight films
  • Incredibles 2 (2018)
  • Blockers (2018)
  • Cloud Atlas (2014)
  • Anna Karenina (2012)
  • Pride and Prejudice (2005)
  • Apollo 11 (2019)
  • Always Be My Maybe (2019)
  • Interstellar (2014)
  • The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)
jan 7 2019 ∞
jul 13 2019 +
  • The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
  • First Man (2018)
  • Chariots of Fire (1981)
  • Nightcrawler
  • Nocturnal Animals
  • One Hour Photo
  • First 10 min of killing of a sacred deer
  • la jete (watch on periscope)
  • Brazil
  • The Sharp End (2007)
  • Alone on the Wall
  • Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
  • Ivan's Childhood (1962)
  • Solaris (1972)
  • At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
  • The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)
  • Juliette of the Herbs (1993)
  • The Fall
  • the last samurai
  • the seventh seal
  • before sunrise
jun 5 2018 ∞
jan 20 2021 +
  • Akira (1988)
  • The Lover (1992)
  • Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
  • Black Panther (2018)
  • The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014)
  • Miss Congeniality (2000)
  • Patch Adams (1998)
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015)
  • Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
  • Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
  • The Wind Rises (2013)
  • Lady Bird (2017)
  • Ex Machina (2014)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • Whiplash (2014)
dec 20 2017 ∞
nov 25 2018 +
  • A Room With a View (1985)
  • All the Wilderness (2015)
  • The Lover (1992)
  • Into the Wild (2007)
  • Tess (1979)
  • I Origins (2014)
  • Mustang (2015)
  • Breathless (1961)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  • Sixteen Candles (1984)
  • Say Anything (1989)
  • Charlie's Angels (2000)
  • The Dreamers (2003)
  • Back to the Future (1985)
  • The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
  • The Red Shoes (1948)
  • The Spectacular Now (2013)
  • I Am Love (2009)
  • Jason Bourne (2016)
  • The Little Prince (2016)
dec 20 2017 ∞
mar 4 2018 +
  • "Will this decision help me reach my full potential?" (Dr. Jordan Peterson)
  • "Everything matters"

(Dr. Jordan Peterson)

  • If you want to be incandescent, then your actions must be incandescent.
  • Eudimonia
  • "Appreciating what is on hand isn't a slacker's solution. It isn't an attack on ambition. There's no point in chasing the future until and unless we are better at being more attuned to the modest moments and things that are presently already available to us."

(The School of Life)

  • "To attain great wisdom, a better human knows that you must live a long time. They remember that their body is not theirs; it is a gift from their ancestors. Theref...
apr 8 2017 ∞
jul 15 2017 +
  • Be honest about the quality of the work you are doing
  • Build structures that can withstand inevitable occasional breakdowns in character
  • Ask for feedback from people you respect; don't show your work to someone you know will just default to complimenting you. Your ego does not need to be fuelled by that.
  • Don't spread yourself thin. Pick what interests you rationally and pursue it with passion.
  • Avoid burnout at all costs, and tend to yourself frequently so that a lack of energy does not cause overvaluing
  • If the people you spend time with do not challenge you and inspire you, consider if the relationship is worth it
  • Do not undervalue work that helps others. It is worth more than any kind of work you can do.
jan 4 2017 ∞
jan 4 2017 +

lover of mine, here is a virtual letter that I would maybe write on paper if I wasn't seeing you so soon (!) courtesy of the massive snaking underwater monoliths that carry the electronic expressions of my love from my fingers to your inbox. all i have to say is this:

I dream of the best for you, have woven these dreams into my own and lend you some of my dream matter whenever i can. an ecstatic future is reaching for you out of unfolded brightness. life will swallow you and imbue you with its fullness. and you are strong enough to bear it. I think you can break yourself out (or in) at any time, not because it's easy to do so but rather because I know you have the strength to do it. and if you ever feel that you don't, I'll gladly remind you and lend you any I have. strength and dreams. I love you completely.

nov 22 2021 ∞
nov 22 2021 +
  • Stalker (1979)- Tarkovsky
jan 9 2021 ∞
jan 9 2021 +
  • Will's protein ice cream
  • Will's cesear salad
  • melons/watermelon
  • blackberries
  • strawberries
  • starfruit
may 18 2020 ∞
may 18 2020 +
mar 21 2020 ∞
mar 22 2020 +
  • Skipping Stones by Mutual Benefit
  • Heart Take Flight by Bedouine
  • Atlas by Lady Lamb
  • Crane Your Neck by Lady Lamb
  • Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden
  • Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley version)
  • cowboy like me by Taylor Swift
jan 20 2020 ∞
jan 20 2021 +
  • Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles
  • Unbelievable?: Why After Ten Years of Talking With Atheists, I'm Still a Christian by Justin Brierly
  • Letters to Malcolm by CS Lewis
  • The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
  • Concerning the Inner Life by Evelyn Underhill
  • The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
  • The Language of Creation by Matthieu Pageau
  • Telling God's Story by John W Wright
  • Foundations of Christian Culture by Ivan Ilyin
  • Garden in the East by Angela Doll Carlson
apr 14 2019 ∞
aug 26 2020 +
  • Build foundational habits (reading, meditation, quiet time, exercise, fasting, early to rise)
  • Build up an emergency fund
  • Build skills that make me a competitive aerospace candidate
  • Build and cultivate a public personal blog
  • Read some big classics rather than "fast" reads
  • Spend more of the day outside of the house
dec 6 2018 ∞
mar 20 2020 +
  • Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
  • The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
  • Simple Rules by Donald Sull
  • The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World by Adam Gazzaley
  • Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark
  • The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
  • Neuroimmunity by Michal Schwartz
  • The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
  • A History of Virility by Alain Corbin
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Hays Translation)
  • Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery by Michael Bliss
  • The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
  • Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow
  • Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerg...
aug 6 2018 ∞
jun 11 2020 +
  • Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World (2012)
  • Gattaca (1997)
  • La La Land (2016)
  • Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003)
  • Kill Bill Vol 2 (2004)
  • La Piscine (1969)
  • Arrival (2016)
  • Interstellar (2014)
  • In the Mood for Love (2000)
  • Hidden Figures (2016)
  • The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
  • Independence Day (1996)
  • The Mars Generation (2016)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Wonder Woman (2017)
  • Paterson (2016)
  • La Belle et La Bête (2014)
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
  • The Godfather
  • Dunkirk (2017)
dec 20 2017 ∞
mar 4 2018 +
  • The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
  • The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
  • No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
  • A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
  • Grit by Angela Duckworth
  • Go Wild by John Ratey and Richard Manning
  • Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
dec 20 2017 ∞
jan 20 2020 +
  • furnaces
  • gold idols melting
  • green oranges
  • all black ensembles
  • a blue-accented Piper Cherokee
  • MiG-29s and snow
  • floor to ceiling window panes
  • early morning mist
  • long black equestrian boots
  • fluid integrals
jan 4 2017 ∞
mar 20 2020 +