The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.56

chaos & poetry, imagination as home, beauty as method

🕳️ 🐇 A hand-curated publication featuring psychoactive internet rabbit holes that explore this question: What does it mean to live a life of meaning and beauty?

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Dear explorers,

Todays eclectic issue reflects some of the themes I’ve been traversing as I head back into spring semester for grad school: global south cosmologies, the future of the american soul, sacred space & community, ontologies of awe, pluralistic utopias, spectrums of consciousness, and indigenous conceptions of time. Concepts that aggregate and flow back into the ether of reverie. I blink and winter has transitioned into spring.

I hope you find yourself anew in todays issue.

Yours,

Patricia

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without further ado.

Here are the visuals, words, poetry, and art so far that stirred my soul for the month of Febuary & March:

1. 💻 open this issue in your web browser (not phone) at a time where you have at least 30 mins to read.

2. ☕ grab hot tea or coffee

3. 👚 change into something comfortable and ideally sit against some fluffy pillows, with your computer on your lap at a 45 degree angle

4. light a candle 🕯️

5. 💨 take 5 breaths and listen to this meditation

6. meditate on a question you have and run it by this tarot reader

7. 🎵 press play for music. Listen while you read this issue.

play vibes.

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904

Cherry blossom covering the ground in Nara, Japan

Franny Choi, from "Perihelion: A History of Touch"

“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright…”

— Gustave Flaubert (b. 12 December 1821)

Joan Mitchell - untitled, 1955.

Tavík František Šimon - Paris bookstore (1904)

Homecoming, Tathev Simonyan

Opération terrestre - Estelle Chrétien.

Anna Akhmatova, from The Akhmatova Journals, Vol. I: 1938-1941