A list of beautiful things #8

absence and nothingness

• How to trick yourself into loving winter: Live in harmony with the season

• Log off, touch grass

• Autumn leaf confetti

• Mentally I am here

• I like seeing what other people find beautiful.

• This film captured perfectly the boredom, absurdity and beauty of the human experience (watch it on Hulu)

• I love poems that are just lists

• Writing as a form of prayer

• A powerful meditation on absence: “Absences are not just what there is not, but rather what was there and now is not any longer, or what should be there and yet is not.”

• Why the color white isn’t nothingness, according to the artist Wassily Kandinsky: “It is not a dead silence, but one pregnant with possibilities.”

And some little things from me

• Nourishment

• Try spending an evening like this … or a day like this

• On death

• Peek a draft of my upcoming book

• Modern-day well wishes