My latest read is STRANGE BEASTS OF CHINA by Yan Ge (trans. It makes sense, then, that reading is what gives equilibrium and feels better, because it aids with thinking through complicated questions about how I should live. It’s like when you’re trying to concentrate, and somebody keeps interrupting. My beliefs and strategies for handling certain moral-social issues are changing, but they aren’t stable, so I feel simultaneously exposed by social media and attacked by it. I’m not immune to the ups and downs of the political landscape, and I’m at a moment of shift, like many people probably are, following the tumult of both pandemic and elections. (And perhaps also why I don’t wish to delete my social media accounts, just retreat for a while.) Which is interesting, because my good Buddhist training has me asking myself why it provokes that response at all, and why reading feels so much better right now. The urge has come at a time when the thought of posting even one little thing on social media is physically repulsive to me, almost a source of horror. I’ve read an extraordinary number of books this month, more than I have at almost any other time. Reading Notes: Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
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