Ashley Hart
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Ashley Hart
"So When we are unhappy we feel the unhappiness of others more; feeling is not destroyed but concentrated…”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky “White Nights”
“There was an inherent freedom in that kind of life—a stretch of time between reaching out to someone and hearing back. You had to hold people in mind longer. You had to wonder about them, wait for them.”
The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.
cheryl strayed • Brave Enough
Notes from video:
an addiction to convenience is killing our creativity. if we opened a page and expected the answer on the first page, would we buy/open a book again? the process of creating art is often coming up against things that don’t resonate, and how do we respond to it?
going through the hard/boring parts make us stronger, creative, etc
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The car is a private crying area. If you see a person crying near a car, you may need to offer help. If you see a person crying inside a car, you know they are already held.
Heather Christle • The Crying Book
We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think
Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel
Writing a poem is not so very different from digging a hole. It is work. You try to learn what you can from other holes and the people who dug before you. The difficulty comes from people who do not dig or spend time in holes thinking that the holes ought not to be so wet, or dark, or full of worms. “Why is your hole not lined with light?” Sir, it
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Next time you wonder about something - a word, a face, a feeling, an unrecognized song - don’t look it up right away. Let it sit in your mind like a riddle. Think about it when you walk, cook, or do your cardio. Let it itch you a little, you’ll be surprised by what else rises to the surface.