Open Tabs #3

Books, newsletters, articles and audio for May 2024

A collection what I’ve read and dove into this month - 73 recommendations in total. My messages are open for recommendations, reflections and open conversation! Cover photo by Louise Bourgeois

XO, G

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BOOKS IN MY HANDS

Heaven Is A Place On Earth by Adrian Shirk

“Hope is their vocation. Their hoping, however shifting and sketchy, is endless.” (49)

The Lords and New Creatures Poems by Jim Morrison

“You parade thru the soft summer / We watch your eager rifle decay / Your wilderness / Your teeming emptiness / Pale forests on verge of light / decline.

More of your miracles / More of your magic arms.” (96)

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WRITING & POETRY

What is Love to You? Answered by Nick Cave for the Red Hand Files

Freedom is Free from the Spiraling substack

Bruxism and PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT by Jenny Samuel from JUNQ Magazine

A Certain Kind of Eden by Kay Ryan