I have noticed trying to hold myself to the habit of a weekly journal or post gives a different quality to the passing of time.
“Modern man sees himself as irreversibly situated in historical time, while archaic man defended himself against time by periodically abolishing it.”
— Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return
Things found this week…
1. Czechoslovak Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden
2. Aristotle on how tyrants maintain power
3. Lessons I wish I learned in my 20s, Article
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) January 9, 2026
Grateful to have read this in my 20s, wondered what my own reflections will be 10 years from now
4. Autofiction in the form of dead personal websites Link: http://seanxthielen.com
Source:
“Autofiction in the form of dead personal websites” (https://t.co/jqV8vLi7CQ, 2019–2025). pic.twitter.com/7rhMZmjuQr
— Sean X (@seanxthielen) January 18, 2026
5. Inspiration
6. Poem:
“Start seeing everything as God
But keep it a secret
Become like a man who is Awestruck
And Nourished
Listening to a Golden Nightingale
Sing in a beautiful foreign language
While God invisibly nests
Upon its tongue.”
~ Hafiz.
7. Kallocain, found via cigarette nostalgia
