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Set point at first heading when opening Org mode file

I recently discovered Org mode's speed keys option and it's pretty great. One caveat with speed keys is that they only work if the point is at the very beginning of a heading. To help with this, I (with Claude's help) created a small

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Nick Cave on everyday beauty

The luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how

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Printing my Journelly journal

An early attempt at exporting my Journelly journal to PDF

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Printing my Journelly journal

Friday, May 2, 2025

Do I like putting daily notes here in Ghost? I don't think I do. It's easy, though, so that's what I'm doing today. Using Ghost feels wrong, somehow, although I can't put my finger on why.

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The Year of Magical Thinking

This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.

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The Year of Magical Thinking