Year of the Blog
👋 I'm M.
I'm always trying to find ways to write more. I wrote in moleskins, and Leuchtturm's, and loose paper, and legal pads, and most recently spent a few years on 750words. That writing has all been private, more a chaotic deluge of words than structured thought.
This year, I want to spend more time working with my thoughts (the image I have is hand-building with clay, rough but with intentional form). Perhaps even charming in its lop-sidedness? One can hope.
I pitched Year of the Blog to Ilona. You can capitalize anything and suddenly it's not just 'a thing' but A Thing. So this is the first post of Year of the Blog 2025 and I kind of can't believe we've managed to pull together a little crew. Everything is more fun with friends. See y'all out on the sea.
That's it for this week, except for sharing my pantry list of blog ideas which I plan to return to when I'm feeling stripped of inspiration.
🍯 Pantry of Blog Ideas
- Take quotes from Readwise
- Reflections on world-building and fantasy systems
- Seymour Pappert and mindstorms
- Reflections on end-doulaing an institution
- Research into growing seasons in NYC
- Japanese micro-seasons
- Bret Victor
- Seasonal produce
- Cool institutions
- Ursula Le Guin and women taking no bull shit
- Why I love the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Some practical interior design tips
- My favorite furniture brands
- Thoughts from the Noguchi museum
- Favorite bits from my Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Why I love the Lymond Chronicles
- A guide to my neighborhood
- Knowledge & organization systems
- Maps
- Patterns of Industrialization
- Recipes for yogurt cake
- Lyric poems and why Grapefruit by Yoko Ono feels so good
- Carol Dweck & Mindsets
- What I want in a job
- Meditation
- An Everlasting Feast
- Tips for facilitation
- The geology of my homes
- Midcentury designers
- Indian textiles
- Fanfiction
- Habits