Jung's red book, taking the half-wit out for a walk, empires, and more
Seven thin(g/k)s I explored this week
Hello dear reader,
Here are seven links to bits of the world I explored this week, shared with the hope that you will find them to be an inspiring springboard for deeper thinking.
Sally Rooney fans rejoice, she has a new book coming out.
How do French parents raise their teenagers? was an interview with the author of Bringing Up Bebe, a book I have on hold for my third trimester reading list, exploring raising a child in Paris from the perspective of an American expat.
A new-to-me podcast series exploring empires. I’m feeling expansive. Thanks pregnancy.
After watching A Dangerous Method, a historical drama that peeks into the lives of Carl Jung and one of his patients—Sabina Spielrein—I decided to pick up the former’s book titled The Red Book, which Jung wrote during his midlife crisis. Here’s a quote from it that peaked my interest:
“Woe betide those who live by way of examples! Life is not with them. If you live according to an example, you thus live the life according to an example, but who should live your own life? So live yourselves.”
Kafka’s notes, notably his observation on surviving difficulty— “An advantage of keeping a diary consists in the fact that one becomes aware with reassuring clarity of the transformations one incessantly undergoes…In the diary one finds proof that, even in conditions that today seem unbearable, one lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand thus moved as it does today.”
“Everyone who concentrates all day, in the evening needs to let the half-wit out for a walk.” A good reminder to unwind in the evenings. Lately, G and I have been doing so by watching episodes of Friends.
Visited a baby store in LA to get a stroller, got completely overwhelmed by all the options out there, walked out. Send help.
See you next week!
Ever lovingly,
Ani
Loved these! Going to try the podcast!!