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The 13-month Year

The 13-month Year

A 12-month year is not flexible enough and simply too stressful, so I've given this concept up and created a 13-month year. My personal problem with time Before I explain how a 13-month year looks like let me preface with a bold but true statement: I don'

An empty wall calendar

How I plan and document my life with a wall calendar

My brain struggles to understand time which makes planning or even thinking about future difficult. A few years ago, I discovered that a simple wall calendar can be an incredibly useful tool to make future more real and manageable. If your appointments, dates and birthdays surprise you, hear me out.

Types of time perception: linear, circular and spiral

Types of time perception

The way people perceive time has been on my mind for a while. I can't tell you whether it's been a week, a couple of months, or a quarter of a century. I'll explain it later. Time as a line There is a linear

The Pyramid of Relationships by Phill Stutz

The Pyramid of Relationships by Phill Stutz

In the new documentary Stutz, Jonah Hill, a comedian and actor, introduces his therapist Phil Stutz to the wide Netflix audience. He does it to share Stutz's therapeutic tools with everyone who could potentially need them. At the end of the documentary, Hill reviews his initial motivation and

100 things that made my year (2022)

100 things that made my year (2022)

1. Vegetarian hot dogs from IKEA. Great for the New Year's Eve and January 1st. 2. The Matrix Resurrections. I'd never hoped to see my favourite characters in a new story so the 4th movie was a great gift to a 10-year-old me. 3. Journaling. I

Good books I read in 2022

Good books I read in 2022

Here's a collection of the best books I read in 2022 with their opening lines. Hunger - Roxane Gay One of the most important books I've ever read as a woman with a body. Gay's honesty and sometimes brutal directness made me question the

Wrong people clap twice

blackout poetry

Wrong people clap twice

I like Austin Kleon's newspaper blockout poetry so much that I decided to take an old New York Times and find some poems too.

My language tree

My language tree

Have you ever seen a language tree? I came across it during my time at the university. A language tree is a representation of language families. It helps one understand how connected Indo-European languages are. My mother tongue, Polish, is a part of the Slavic languages branch. The closest to

September Skies 2022

September Skies 2022

The 24. sky is missing. I didn't feel well that day and forgot to take a picture. My initial reaction was: Oh snap, I cannot publish September skies if one is missing. Perfectionism in me cares far too much about 1 missing piece, instead of seeing 29 photos.

Layoffs and Empathy

As we all see, many companies decided to make major job cuts. Even the big brands like Oracle, Shopify, PayPal, Netflix, Everli, Getir, Redfin, Robinhood, Coinbase 😕 💸 For people affected, layoffs mean stress, cancelled plans, financial worry. It also forces them to find a new job fast. Who are they? They

The Most Beloved Giraffe

The Most Beloved Giraffe

Parallel Mothers by Pedro Almodovar

Thoughts on Almodovar's Parallel Mothers

Ana and Janis met in a hospital. They are about to give birth but they don't know yet that their lives will be changed forever. Spoiler warning! Parallel Mothers in the film * Ana - a troubled young woman. Motherhood and its responsibility change her. The loss of the

The Spring Apocalypse

The Spring Apocalypse

I made this little collage a few weeks ago. The process of making a collage always surprises me. It starts with a sprint through magazines and collecting images that seem to have a potential or an interesting element. Then I cut the elements I like the most and put them

My Berlinale 2022 experience

My Berlinale 2022 experience

Berlinale returned to the cinemas, and it felt festive. I exercised my reflexes and ended up buying a lot of tickets. Here's an incomplete list of films I saw at Berlinale. Allons enfantsAllons enfants - Thierry Demaizière, Alban Teurlai, David Bérillon - a lovely documentary about young people

Yayoi Kusama in Gropius Bau

Yayoi Kusama in Gropius Bau

Known for being covered in dots, pieces of Yayoi Kusama’s art are on display in Gropius Bau. I went there a few days ago to immerse myself in the world of vivid colours and never-ending patterns. For context, it was not the first time I saw her art. Last

Importance of touch

It was one of the scorching weekends in Berlin when I decided to escape the heat and visit one of the best museums in Berlin - a bit in the shadow between Nationalgalerie and Pergamon - Neues Museum. The museum is famous for one of the most stunning depictions of