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Like every morning, my eyes open at 5:55am. Partly because of my inner clock, but also because my thoughts tumble around and wake me up. I start laying out tasks for the day, and conversations I need to conduct; I push words around like letters on a scrabble board, and while I end up with perfect formulations at 5:55, I usually miss out on using them during the day. I stay in bed until 7:30, sometimes 9:00am. Then I get up.<\/p>\n
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On the last day of this year (you are probably reading this in 2019 already, so take this as a greeting from the past and send it to the archives), I got up at 8:00am sharp. I went to a supermarket and bought three zucchinis. Then I re-read the newsletter I sent out one year ago<\/a>. It was titled \u201cYou Think You Might Not Get Through It But You Do\u201d. That\u2019s probably what I learned throughout this year: You\u00a0actually<\/em> do. I finished a lot of things this year; I got a master\u2019s degree, I worked with a lot of great people, and I worked on a lot of things including myself. I end this year being torn between totally agreeing to Jerry Salz\u2019s statement \u201cWork is the only thing that takes the curse of fear away\u201d (I blogged<\/a> about his great piece on being an artist), and accepting that not working<\/em> might sometimes actually be the best cure for my nervous self. I might find out in 2019. Don\u2019t cry\u2014work. If you feel like it.<\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n What follows are the occasional recommendations from around the web. E.g. Austin Kleon\u2019s weblog, in particular this exploration<\/a> of the metaphor \u201csurfing the web\u201c.<\/p>\n I enjoyed this piece<\/a> by the California Sunday Magazine about Homes. They photographed and talked to a variety of people where and how they feel at home, and the audio layer of the piece makes it extra-intimate.<\/p>\n A couple of weeks ago, I decided to move my blog\u2019s home from Tumblr to a self-hosted system again. I made tons of posts (dating back to 2006!) private, and kept only the writing I still like public. When Tumblr decided to apply content filters as of Dec. 17, I already left the platform. Malte\u2019s tweet summed up my feelings perfectly: \u201ctake this recent tumblr crackdown as a reminder that this is still the web. you can learn to build and own your own platforms.\u201d (12\/4\/2018)<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n Drawing the 2018-Finishing-Line: Fear has been, yet again, way to dominant in my year, and I want to continue working on taming it. Besides that, I want to become better at using those formulations I make at 5:55am, I want to become better at taking up space, and more intent at making decisions. I hope you all had a great year and have some (not too many!) plans for 2019. Stay safe and sound, Yours truly\u2014Christoph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like every morning, my eyes open at 5:55am. Partly because of my inner clock, but also because my thoughts tumble around and wake me up. I start laying out tasks for the day, and conversations I need to conduct; I push words around like letters on a scrabble board, and while I end up with … 122018: Think Lightly of Yourself, And Deeply of the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1206,1200],"tags":[44,41,40,3,2,43],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christels-corner","category-gefuehlslagen","tag-christels-corner","tag-english","tag-newsletter","tag-schreiben","tag-text","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}