📝 Practice: How to slow down and find your feet when things feel out of control

Step one: turn off your goddamn push notifications!!

I’ve been going to the library to write.

My house is quiet and my office is beautiful and I have the right snacks, but I’ve been going to the library to write.

I don’t really know why.

I’ve gone to coffee shops and book stores and co-working spaces but it’s not the same — I’m always a guest.

In the library I’m home.

It’s not because I love books that much or because I need to access the printer or the free wifi or the clean bathrooms or water fountains or air conditioning or all of the other things that make our libraries such an important part of our communal ecosystem — it’s because the library is one of the last places where belonging isn’t for sale.

I belong in the library because I live in the community served by the library. Because my neighbors and I, though some very complex (and probably inefficient) system have agreed that part of our money should go towards creating, maintaining and expanding our access to knowledge. No muffin purchase required.

The gentleman with an intellectual…