Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not "die" in the winter but quietly prepare for another season
Almost anything that we are able to direct sustained attention at will begin to loop on itself and bloom.
To take a dark example, if you focus on your anxiety, the anxiety can begin to loop until you hyperventilate and get tunnel vision and become filled with nightmarish thoughts and feelings—a panic attack.
And you do the same thing with joy. If you... See more
For me, creativity isn’t born when everything is tidy and separate. It comes from cross-pollination, unexpected combinations, and head-on collisions between things that don’t necessarily go together.
If you want a world where disabled and chronically ill people can rest, then you want a world where rest isn't something you have to earn.
That’s not laziness.
That’s liberation.
rest isn’t something you have to earn, rest is a requirement for being alive
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation