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New Year, Still a Giant Baby!

How do you change your bad habits? By being very good to your needy, impossible baby self in spite of the hard work involved.

Heather Havrilesky
Jan 03, 2024
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Fresh Air Philosophy (1969) by Dorothea Tanning

My first and most important resolution every year is to resist the urge to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The baby is me, the bathwater is all of my bad habits. Because even when I try to do battle with my worst habits — I have so many! — I still need to make some room for my extra-large adult baby …

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