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‘Art’

Starting a gallery. https://designkompany.com/category/gallery/ Sourcing images and stories now. Querying, conversing. Rekindling with dozens, and dozens, of old friends, clients, acquaintances, mentors… and [deleted]. Big thanks to MT for listening […]

Protected: Immersion

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Protected: Truth is stranger than fiction

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Dear K

K-san, arigatou. That was a good conversation. I was surprised at how consistently you recall different factors that relate to us, to our shared time in that city that we […]

Protected: Cojournal | On Emotional Wellbeing

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Protected: A state of things

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To Paris

I had a fun day today. I’m reading tons of stuff online these days since I have time. Most of it is inane chatter, of course. Like this one, below, […]

August Cojournal | Apply now

Find out more about our interactive writing circle, Cojournal. Which has been going since 2014. Next start dates: August 2, 2021 August 9, 2021 Here’s a link. http://kismuth.com/cojournal Thanks:)

S P A C E | ‘Aperture of Attention’

I’m curating something new. It’ll be published in August. https://designkompany.gumroad.com/#yRaiTn Papers, Cojournal–these are the spaces where we write, and co-create. I’m enjoying these things. Thank you. You know who you […]

Protected: Cojournal | Excerpt from SF’s ‘On Narcissism’

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How to validate someone’s feelings

From: https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/emotional-support#takeaway ‘Think about the last time you went through something difficult. You probably wanted to talk to someone about the problem, but you may not have necessarily wanted them […]

‘Furikake’

Finished up the July set of zines. On sale now is a zine about furikake.

Why I make S P A C E

From https://sciencebeta.com/7-signs-true-friendship-real-reason-hard-to-find/ Sociology professor Rebecca G. Adams in a 2012 New York Times article says: “As external conditions change, it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the […]

‘Fatigue’

A zine about this. https://designkompany.com/issue-133/ Checkit!:)

Footnote #35 from Wikipedia’s page on ‘Happiness’

Of note. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness#cite_note-140 35. “Some have argued that it is misleading to use ‘happiness’ as a generic term to cover subjective well-being more generally. While ‘subjective well-being’ is more precise, […]

‘Why don’t you go home to the US, Dipika?’

According to Wikipedia, ‘On April 17, a Walgreens pharmacy in Monroe accidentally gave some people injections of saline instead of COVID-19 vaccine.[104]’

Link | ‘How are you coping in Vietnam, Dipika?’

‘How are you coping in Vietnam, Dipika?’

5 July | Half-month Cojournal

Write. Write every week. Write with a peer group of no more than 4. Discovering people wherever I go, I find myself always wanting to interconnect us. Maybe because it’s […]

This is why

‘Why don’t you teach English in Vietnam Dipika?’ ‘No.’ ‘…’ ‘…’ ‘I see.’ ‘Besides, I’d rather create opportunities for work for myself and people whose talents and skills and time […]

Short and sweet

I’m not sure where to put the piece I want to publish, soonishly, about post post modernism, the Society of the Spectacle, and social sustainability. All of these are thinky-thinky […]

‘Farther than ever before’

That’s the name of this edition of S P A C E. I have been thinking about that theme of ‘awayness’ for, well, since March 2020 when it became impossible […]

1.25

I’m excited about something but it’s way too personal to put on this page. So, I’ll talk about it in the Cojournal. Which is the project that Kismuth invented in […]

In Vietnam

Good morning from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I sent the weekly note out on Tuesday this week to members of the S P A C E the e-mag community. […]

The end of waiting

If good things come in threes, then today is the day that the third thing landed. If I am understanding this correctly, the border between Cambodia and Vietnam is now […]

感情

A new thing to say. A new thing to write. Writing it. Today is a writing day.

Hello again

Wow. I haven’t been blogging here for a while. I think I got distracted with the zines. The zines at S P A C E. They are winding to a […]

Protected: Dear V

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Solitude

Tôi biết vì sao cậu đi đến nơi vắng vẻ này I know why you seek solitude

Making S P A C E this year starts with this

I’m ready. I’ll talk about this today in the Cojournal Project new space (that those of you who are wondering about it maybe missed the email with the Orientation Packet… […]

S P A C E | ‘Decolonization’

Probably the biggest thing that I’m working on this season is a set of zines on the topic, ‘Decolonization.’ With M, M, and A, in the cloud. For S P […]

Protected: Chúc mừng năm mới ✨✨

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Protected: The ‘nParent’

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Vid | How emotional abuse traumatizes us

‘It wasn’t your fault. No one deserves to be treated like this.’

Protected: ‘How did you go bankrupt? Gradually then suddenly.’

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Boring AF

Is it any surprise? No. It oughtn’t be. [deleted] ‘Boring AF’. It’s dismaying that Boss is using this kind of vocabulary. Then again, it makes me understand, too, […]

The Book of Feelings II

In the cloud (which I’ve been in since 2013, since I usually collaborate remotely with very creative people all around the world), I’m making stuff. Why the cloud? Why this […]

Protected: Dear Internet

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Protected: Homesickness

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Protected: Nhà

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