Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P
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Asterion, Jess, Avo, and all the other ghosts.
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Best Books I Have Read in 2025
With the constant post-prandial somnolence of the festivities, it feels hard to write something that requires energy, work, and effort. Truthfully, anything we hope to be well written takes some form of effort, but one thing is to write solely from my brain and heart (with minimal fact-checking), and another is to research for a full-blown — and at times tedious — essay.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 2 months ago in BookClub
Aesthetics
Human capacity for interpretation and understanding of the world is complex and moves precariously in balance between the objective and the subjective. Beauty itself might not be fully objective, but it often is (either as perceived, e.g. symmetry; or shared, e.g. trend). And it drives us: beauty gives us pleasure.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 2 months ago in Art
The Bright Light of Yoga
My earliest memories already carry the imprint of anxiety and depression—right at the beginning of what I can recall. The beginning of memory itself, which, contrary to ancient yogic traditions, is often taken to be what makes me me. Yet I am not my panic, nor am I a perpetual knot of anger. Experience is transient by nature, and if it is to pass cleanly across the moving river of now, we must learn to release it. We must learn to shape, rather than be ruled by, our inner landscape.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 3 months ago in Longevity
