Zemira Whitehead
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Zemira Whitehead
The importance of patience and cultivation in well-doing, emphasizing the long, invisible process between planting and reaping.
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Eugene Peterson suggests that the person who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed.
If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes in my garden tonight.
There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping.
During
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Algorithmic media incentivizes simplistic discourse, but people remain capable of complexity and compassion in the offline, real world.
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And all I can say is like I think we gotta fight that and that something you can what great is you can actually do that yourself You can fight and like not be a participant in that Sometimes I wonder though well not wonder I think that it is I more of a cynic I think that it ends up being a losing battle because even the first question, right? You
... See moreintense effort to express and connect is inherently limited by the boundaries of language itself, highlighting its insufficiency.
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw