Coming soon: The Apple TV series Physical meets Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels meets Jung.
About T-junctions: Each week, I take in wildly varied media on wildly varied topics: books (fiction, poetry, nonfiction); articles (gardening, hiking, literature, history, politics, international current events, wellness, aging, finances, art, theater); business docs; government RFPs; blogs; social posts; text threads; food labels (autoimmune life); online news.
I’m also streaming multiple series and films, rewatching old favorites, listening to podcasts and audiobooks (usually on the treadmill), attending online lectures, seeking out art and theater whenever I can, and hiking or kayaking with bird and plant ID apps.
Your mix might differ, but I know I’m not alone in this state of oversaturation.
I log it all in a journal (because otherwise, it’s just noise), and sometimes truly lovely patterns emerge—threads in the chaos, odd overlaps, flashes of serendipity.
The crazy part? I’m now writing essays about the journal itself—a journal I started to manage the flood of information, but which has, naturally, become part of the flood. So, yeah, pretty meta.
I think of each meta-analysis as a T-junction—where ideas meet, bottleneck, and sometimes take an unexpected left turn into something worth exploring.
This post will soon be the first in the series.