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A Long Talk: conversation between Eloghosa Osunde & Joshua Segun-Lean.
And here is the paradoxical secret: connection and isolation are bound to each other. I am confident that without my experience as a lonely closeted teenager at a boys’ boarding school, I wouldn’t be as passionate about deep connection today. We simply cannot know connection without also experiencing disconnection. There is nothing wrong with you w... See more
Casper ter Kuile • The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
As physical beings, we are literally open to the world, suffused every second with air from somewhere else; as social beings, we are equally determined by our contexts. If we can embrace that, then we can begin to appreciate our and others’ identities as the emergent and fluid wonders that they are.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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