Though the caveat to that is that persistent exposure to a particular window on to the world does risk shaping one's sense of what falls within a sort of "personal Overton window" of acceptable views. Look at what happens to folks on Twitter who start to flirt with "race realism" etc.

Yeah it’s really remarkable how that ends up happening. Noticed it too when posting pics from a restaurant

Still, I suppose it’s interesting that one of the best things about this winter has been long walks in the snow and sun, most of which has been undocumented save a pic or two to family.

I’m not even sure I mean this cynically. One needs forward momentum in life and I’m skeptical of the idea that the need that inspires that movement forward is, in some simplistic binary sense, “intrinsic.”

it's been a difficult week in the news, please cut this humble editor some slack

*hindenburg voice*
oh the humanity

It's a weird phenomenon - you have to persuade yourself to enjoy yourself!

As a corollary, it's amazing how much convincing it takes to get myself to watch a movie I want to watch... To force myself to sit down and pay attention to something for 2 hours? It's like every other thing in my life has to be sorted - meals made, laundry done, calls made, things tidied etc etc

correct... :(

(though, can you be a writer without those kinds of delusions?)

Yeah, I'm now inclined to read more by her

Yeah, I've done it a few times, sometimes for a month or two at a time. Sometimes it's amazing... others not so much

Ah, that's so nice!

I went to Iceland solo a few years ago and I was so miserable the highlight of my trip was sitting in my AirBnB, drinking some sauvignon blanc while watching Fleabag for the first time...?