Everything is Liminal

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Build your comfort reserves
One thing we learned from the pandemic is how to cope by turning to our creature comforts, often food. And now, we need to lean into them once again.
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Jenna Park
7
The world does not revolve around us
How creativity and community is the antidote to despair.
48
I'm learning how to read books all over again
Tsundoku, the attention economy, and online culture that makes reading a competition.
57
Winter's wonder and a new year begins
How the year ended, how I'm approaching the new year, and a roundup of links.
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Jenna Park
43
A reconciliation of December
A month of contrasts, the ghosts of small business past, consumerism, and making space for future Decembers.
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Jenna Park
22
Unintentional virality and the paradox of connection
Two years of newsletters later, everything is still liminal.
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Jenna Park
45
A letter to the next generation
Anxiety about the future, while holding space for hope.
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Jenna Park
29
We need to get back to reading and critical thinking
Because 2024 feels different from 2016.
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Jenna Park
96
Don't ignore the signal flairs
Between hope and dread, catharsis and oppression. We're heading into what feels like the longest week of the year.
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Jenna Park
20
Rage and joy can exist at the same time
Fall bliss and the anxieties of an election.
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Jenna Park
50
Are we writers or content creators?
Nearly two years on Substack and I still don't know the answer.
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Jenna Park
125
Stop living though your lens. The compulsion to document and share everything.
Remember the feeling and not what it looks like.
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Jenna Park
61
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