Anna Smith
@annakohler
Anna Smith
the things that life is calling you to do get into my face.
what keeps coming back
keep falling into the same hole.
it's you rather than just this business.
when you think about what is most important to himan beings, identity and belonging.
odysseus wants to return home. the crew keeps forgetting the journey, and his job is to help everyone remembe
... See moreI feel like some of the things we’re learning scientifically, or maybe that those of us who aren’t scientists are being invited in a new way to take in, is how even — so we say one of the things that feels most reliable is, you look up and the sky is blue, right? But that the sky is not blue; [
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Ariel Burger • Ariel Burger — Be a Blessing | The On Being Project
Some unwonted, taught pride diverts us from our original intent, which is to explore the neighborhood, view the landscape, to discover at least where it is that we have been so startlingly set down, if we can’t learn why.
Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
This is my same intent.
in some vague way, but specifically to ringfence three or four hours of undisturbed focus
oliverburkeman.com • The three-or-four-hours rule for getting creative work done
how memory is in fact the thing that can join knowledge and ethics.
Ariel Burger • Ariel Burger — Be a Blessing | The On Being Project
On a dark day, or a hazy one, everything’s washed-out and lackluster but the water. It carries its own lights.
Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
Meanwhile, the mouse is positively littering the field with its little piles of cut stems into which, presumably, the author of the book is constantly stumbling.
Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
This is the stumble.