The devil's in the distractions

Happy new year to people with many interests and passions but are still confused about their career

Jan 14 • Sherry Ning

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December 2025

And the sun stood still

December 21 is winter solstice, a liminal space for thinking about some really, really hard questions

Dec 21, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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My year of ecstasy and insecurities

Wrote this in one breath before the Dec 1 sunrise and now I'm going back to bed. Also, recommendations

Dec 1, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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November 2025

You’re bored because you don’t love anything

Breaking out of that feeling of living the same day over and over again

Nov 12, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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October 2025

SELF-ESTEEM 101

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Everything that you want you already are.

Oct 9, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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You're shaped by what you pay attention to

What you look at is what you worship, what you worship is what you become.

Oct 1, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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September 2025

Oh—Exuberance!

Psychoanalysts say that the first trauma we all experience is the act of being pushed out of the womb without our consent.

Sep 26, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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You're overspending because you lack values

Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from "Spirited Away".

Sep 9, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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August 2025

What Should Remain Hidden?

Enchantment is shy

Published on Inkwell • Aug 27, 2025

Goodbye, August

How to enjoy the next seven days. Also, I'm gifting students a one-year subscription.

Aug 25, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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How to look someone in the eyes

Eye contact is a luminous crossing where two people meet, make galactic intercourse, then recoil, changed.

Aug 20, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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Confessions of a shy but talented girl

I feel underestimated by the world, and worse, they might be right because I haven't done enough to prove otherwise.

Aug 15, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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