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Sorina Dumitru

i haven't been brushing my teeth (sorry mom)

Published 7 days ago • 1 min read

Last weekend was magical.

I know you felt it too. Don't forget that feeling.

I was meaning to send this out last weekend. You were supposed to get this on Monday morning instead of Sunday because I know you had a good time last weekend.

There is something magical about the summer solstice, isn't it. It's the longest day. Most of us spend this day outside as much as possible. Here's some Instagram stories I screenshoted because I knew you guys were having a magical time:

I like seeing people look outward instead of inward.

I currently am ending a 6-week period of looking outward. I've seen so much I'm going blind. This is why I put a pause on the weekly newsletters.

I even stopped journaling. Kyran said journaling is like brushing your teeth. I haven't been brushing my teeth. I was very distracted. Distracted by lending myself to causes that weren't mine. There were several instances in which I had to depersonalize myself. I was no longer representing myself but a bigger entity. The entities I was representing had stories but had no intrinsic personalities. Below you can find some of the bigger entities I've represented these past 6 weeks.

Sometimes, it's a beautiful thing to depersonalize yourself in order to represent something bigger than yourself.

These links are relevant, I swear.

Vacation Mindset

An article on Aldous Huxley's book, The Doors of Perception, reframed in order to fit my narrative on vacations in general because my job is beach.

Human Scale Archive

The entirety of the 20th century architectural drawing archive I've represented at the Venice Architecture Biennale. It really is a beautiful thing to see, 100 years of architectural drawings.

Zumthor Presentation

Me representing Metamodernism in Architecture on architect Peter Zumthor's birthday. I was invited on ICARCH (International Conversations about Architecture). Vibe is good, quality is low.

I will end with a quote from Huxley's Doors of Perception:

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.

I love you, bye.

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Sorina Dumitru

architect PhD | writer | I reverse engineer experiences

The topics will be mostly about architecture, economics, and some personal development (so you don't have to learn the hard way, like I did). Yeah I was in Forbes but that was a long time ago.

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