A Chance to Start Anew
Everything is falling apart, but also, new things are possible. And Octavia said that “[t]here’s nothing new / under the sun, / but there are new suns.” We are in a time of new suns. We’re in a time of new suns. We have no idea what we could be, but everything that we have been is falling apart. So it’s time to change. And we can be mindful about t... See more
adrienne maree brown • adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
Alyssa Andino added
2024 is a chance to release, reset, and start again… but so is your next inhale. And exhale.
Today is just as different and the same as yesterday. Every day is a new beginning. Every hour. Every breath.
Thousands of lives have ended. And begun. As I’ve typed this. And, again, as you’ve read it.
We are in a constant state of death and rebirth, personally and collectively. That is both overwhelming and extraordinary. Agonizing and awe-worthy.
In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not resi
... See moreJenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
Keely Adler added
A hopeful future demands of us nothing less than our complete presence in the world – not as followers or consumers, but as participants. We have to learn again how to connect in ways that anchor us, ways that build the world we want to inhabit. This is where hope and possibility live.
314 / We need presence, not punditry
How to get started when it feels like the world is ending
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juarry added
Only then can we begin the work of restoration, respecting the generations to come as we clear a path toward cooling a warming planet.This will be our joy.
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
Jay Matthews added
The longer I do this work, the more I understand that we need to build a stronger account of the moment we are in: a story of decline and new opportunities; of deep crisis and mind-bending possibilities. Most importantly, a time to act from hope rather than sink into fatalism. We need to confront and reckon with the existing order; to reveal it for... See more
Sophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far
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