So, TMP clocked 2 years on Friday, Jan 5!
And I’m pushing 100 posts. That is crazy 😌!
At a glance:
On Friendship (a quote)
Book Club 📖
TMP Archive 📝
The Gallery 🎨
On Friendship
Because I refuse to carry the bad character of inconsistency into 2024, here’s week one’s post (it’s a quote :)):
Writer C. Raymond Beran on friendship:
"What is a friend? I will tell you.
It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better, or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you.
With him you breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone. He understands. He understands. You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all—and underneath—he sees, knows and loves you.
A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself."
Source: 3-2-1: On friendship, the secret to focus, and how to cultivate a good life by James Clear
Book Club 📖
I started The Quest of The Simple Life by Williams James Dawson on the bus last week, and I find it humorous. I’d planned to read it when I wholeheartedly wanted a break from work, and though, I am no longer in that place, I like the book because it’s witty, I can relate sometimes, and he writes so well! You know the feeling of reading and the words just roll? Yeah, you’ll get it here.1
TMP Archive 📝
The Gallery 🎨
To the people who sculpt 🥂
If you do not know the feeling, it’s typically of long sentences that just flow, and make you want to follow it to the end.
Cheers to many beautiful writings to come !!! 🥂 May you never run out of inspiration.