Will Bench

We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.

“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”

― Richard Powers, The Overstory

The way to end up with a good plan is not to start with a good plan, it's to start with some plan, and then slam that plan against reality until reality hands you a better plan.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.