I n d i e • A e s t h e t i c

30/06/2025

30/06/2025

I want to be a poet, a filmmaker, a librarian, a café owner, a therapist, an architect, and a musician on sidewalks. I want to sell books in a quiet town. But I also want to dance on rooftops in a city that never sleeps. I want to grow my own vegetables. I want to wear suits in glass buildings. I want to heal people. I want to disappear. There’s no one version of me that feels complete. Maybe I’m not meant to be one thing. Maybe I’m meant to be unfinished.... a collage of everything I ever wanted to be.

• Hasif (Substack)

28/06/2025

• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

28/06/2025

“Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”

• Ursula K. Le Guin

15/04/2025

Joy Sullivan, “Want", Instructions for Traveling West

13/03/2025

• Oscar Wilde, from Lady Windermere’s Fan

13/03/2025

It’s not easy to live your own way. You can’t blame anyone but yourself.

• Whisper of the heart

13/03/2025

Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927