The first one.
Matter tells spacetime how to curve and spacetime tells matter how to move.
Designing book covers is one latent interest I would like to pursue, since I have it in my genes. Several decades ago, my dad created covers for local authors, drawn by hand. Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of them. But here’s something interesting I read about book covers from a fellow Substacker.
I sometimes worry about my modest book collection that I have built over the last 15 years. What will become of them when I die? Will they end up as garbage? I hope not. Nonetheless, I won’t stop myself from collecting some of these Beautiful Editions of Alice in Wonderland.
A creative analysis for a research project called the CANDOR corpus where people volunteered to speak 30 minutes with a stranger. The results are heartwarming. I wish we can replicate this in our common spaces.
I have also been reading the manga Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. The storytelling uses flashbacks with such elegance I could cry. In addition to many other themes, the story is also about grieving people who have left us while we stay behind.
A study in pink that helped me appreciate my name a little more.
My incompetence in Physics and Maths (though I always topped in class) doesn’t stop me from learning about space. Wish I had teachers like him; I would have been pursuing a different career altogether.
