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Noahie Valk
Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings. Divided into two sections. 1) Cogito: a diary and 2) IOKTIKN: a collection of standalone essays and short stories.
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Recently, I've been falling into a bad habit of postponing my writing throughout the day due to distraction and procrastination. I think it's because I put it in my mind that I have to create the "perfect" set of conditions in order to...
There's a certain swelling of emotion that I'm feeling right now. It's interesting because it's a moment that I don't allow myself to write in because I'm typically too consumed in my thoughts, but this time around I am actively riding...
I watched this video summarizing Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and it was a great summary of the whole book. Hegel is notoriously hard to read and I haven't read the book all the way through, but this video was an excellent primer for...
I'll put it out there: I have a hard time trusting The Process. Controversial, I know. But anyway, there's this deep-seated thing inside of me that makes me doubt all the time. I think that it's a fundamental thing that exists in all...
I woke up this morning very sore from all the walking I did yesterday. I ended up walking several miles because I felt motivated to do so, but I feel that there was a certain amount of desperation I was trying to quell yesterday with all...
I've been dealing with a lot more anxiety, so I decided to take a couple of walks today. I just go up and down my street and loop that however many times I feel is best. One loop is about a mile and I've done four, so I've gone about...
I neglected to write in here for a few days. There are a few reasons for that. The first is that I feel a wave of depression coming, so that always stops me in my tracks. Increased anxiety usually precedes these episodes these days. For...
I had a ton of resistance to write yesterday. The same thing has happened today as well, but here I am anyway. More than likely, this resistance is coming from too much distraction. Whether it be responding to messages or compulsively...
Yesterday, I watched the video below and felt a strong sense of narratives that I've been telling myself and letting internet culture tell me for the past decade come back in full force, so I now feel compelled to speak on it and catalog...
I've been putting off writing today's entry because I am starting to feel a bit of fatigue with writing, but I feel that it's important to keep going in spite of this fatigue so that I can build my creative resilience and keep my...
In yesterday's entry I said that one of my 'rules' for living a good life was to "do the right thing, especially when it's hard." That got me thinking: how can I properly communicate the essence of knowing what that right thing is?...
So I've been doing things here and there today, mostly just doing chores and other household things. This afternoon though, I've finally come up with something for today: I wanted to expand on this because I told y'all I would. Yes,...
Today has been a nice enough day so far that I have decided to spend my time writing today outside. We finally are over the long hump of the late spring, summer, and early fall heat. Now we are in the half of the year that is actually...
I'm currently in the airport waiting on my flight back home to start boarding. I feel spiritually hungover since yesterday was such a long day. Once all of the reception stuff was finished, I went straight back to the hotel so that I...
Man, yesterday was such a long day. After dealing with the long delayed flight, taking the delayed bus to the hotel, and having the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner all after doing an all-nighter the night before, I crashed into bed at...