Konfetti Explorations
Konfetti Explorations
Marisabel
Hi! I'm Marisabel! Puertorican living the Dutch life. This is my personal web garden to make things grow.
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Quick library time read. I printed the 2 essays I enjoyed the most to use in future blog posts, because I had to laugh at how times have NOT change.
This is my submission to this month's Indie Web Carnival theme hosted by Bix of slow.dog. It is a stream of consciousness triggered while reading Genius and Ink ; Virginia Woolf on How to Read (2019). There is something about her...
Perrils of my job...My reading list keeps growing. My mind itches to read this badly, but my schedule is full this month 🤣 #books #work #cataloguingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
'Oh, music. Lovingkindness. (I like that word.) Dreams. Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. There are cultures all over the Galaxy that trade dreams. ' -- chapter 20, Grand Central Station...
This was beautiful!
The nations that had instituted spaceflight had done so largely for nationalistic reasons; it was a small irony that almost everyone who entered space received a startling glimpse of a transnational perspective, of the Earth as one...
I'm enjoying the religion vs science pieces though!
Half way and I'm starting to struggle. A lot of political details involving many many names mentioned once. It's dragging a lot to introduce a new turn of plot every chapter. So every chapter introduces a new discovery and a lot of...
Added this to my Salvation of the Reader essay as footnote: Hoe lossen we de leescrisis op? - NTR Wetenschap : the end of this video is exactly what I mean about starting with the love of reading, explaining what they read and why,...
It is October. Time, as always, has flown. My writing has slowed, but my mind, as always, has not. Let’s recap. Life September began with the familiar buzz of a new year, both at school and at work. Fresh goals, fresh strategies. New...
This essay is a reflection on the book The crisis of narration by Byung-Chul Han, read during the summer of 2025. All the quotes are from the book. Because we lack sufficiently strong communal narratives, our late modern societies are...
I devoured these pages in two nights. I had promised myself three, but after meeting my second goal, I couldn’t stop. I needed to know what came next. What came next was life. Life and death. And that was it. The story was hauntingly...
I added a similarity map using custom tags for my books. They will now show the top 3 matching books according to these tags. But the tags are a manual job... so it should take me 2 - 3 months to complete at a rate of a couple of books a...
Just went to linkedin — I log in like every few months. I see a post of someone I know, super smart and energetic, her own walking brand. Then I read what she posted to increase her customers — she's freelance — which at first looks...
WIP summer at blaakIt's not perfect, but good enough to start coloring in the next session next Saturday. #art #color_pencils #blaak #drawingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.