PEFECT PORTAL PLACES: TSUNDOKU
Tsundoku (積ん読): The act of acquiring books and letting them pile up unread, implies the promise and possibility that each book holds, waiting to be explored.
Perfect Portal Place
noun
a place that becomes a doorway, gate, or other entrance to an alternate state of being, usually to support intuitive creative flow
Similar: glitch in the matrix, rabbit hole, departure point
I once had a spiritual teacher tell me that while reading a book was obviously the optimal way to translate its message, I could psychically and unconsciously “soak up” the knowledge inside any tome simply by placing it on my bedside table while I slept.
At SPACIES, we believe a blank page is a portal because #possibility. Which is probably why when we stumble upon a card table of used books set out on the street, our hearts begin to beat a bit faster.
Is this the moment? The moment you find The Book?
The one with all the answers you’ve been searching for.
The one with the missing key you didn’t realize you needed.
The one with the arcane clue that decodes all the mysteries of life, snapping Life into taught meaningfulness.
The one that changes you.
The one that changes everything.
When I was a kid my Mom worked at a bookstore and for one summer, with no babysitter I went to work with her every shift, so I’d camp out on the floor of some aisle or walk around just looking at and touching book after book - to this day being in a room filled with books comforts and lifts my spirit in a way I can’t describe… never even have to read em!
that kitchen library (with Camus, no less) will live rent-free in my head until I create my own some day