“In a time of darkness, New York must be the light.”

last 20-miler of this #NYCMarathon training cycle done!

ran around Prospect Park, to Domino Park & back, around Prospect Park & home

had a great time despite the rain

photo from about mile 9, before the rain

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

really feeling this question: “But the ideal city—even Aristotle’s—is still a city in the heavens…. What does one do with the real people of the world, while waiting for politics to become rational?” #TherapyofDesire

I have Maarva’s last words to Cassian as conveyed by Brasso transcribed in my Notes app

& I write my grocery lists underneath

a habit begun by accident & continued just because it’s a weekly or so occasion to reread those words

ofc I’m not just sitting around & waiting for politics to change all on their own

really feeling this question: “But the ideal city—even Aristotle’s—is still a city in the heavens…. What does one do with the real people of the world, while waiting for politics to become rational?” #TherapyofDesire

among other things, trying to teach myself to stick with & finish reading long, dense works; helps if they are as compelling as this book #TherapyofDesire

plus I fucking hate this give-in-to-the-abuser-to-prevent-more-abuse argument

unsurprising to see Cuomo make it

please no

am I a wine mom?

maybe? I don’t actually know

hell yeah

peak training week for the NYC Marathon!

my mind has mostly been on other things

all the same, this morning

the back half of my 10-mile run was at goal MP in Zone 2 🎉🎉🎉

not sure if I’m happy or sorry to learn yet again today that my mornings go so much better if I (1) get up earlier and (2) go out for my run as soon as possible

a morning run is great! but transitioning in the dark from sleeping to awake, which makes the morning run possible, is such a challenge!

the green of mid-April in Prospect Park

YOU SHOULD STUDY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

A sex-blind admissions policy at selective universities will not go the way that the Trump administration thinks it will.

True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? Congress has not authorized the use of military force!

Thursday! What a concept!

there’s gotta be one in my neighborhood?

(I’m on the unfancy edge of Ditmas Park.)

👻

(I wish this ghost emoji were spookier!)

so good, especially these reframing moves:
- Instead of “Why am I procrastinating?” ask, “What am I protecting myself from?”
- Instead of “How can I write more?” ask, “What would make this feel safer?”
- Instead of “Why can’t I just get it done?” ask, “What do I need to feel supported right now?”

“There can be no real success without principle — ironclad and unyielding.”

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.