Marriage is the vow we make that, through hardship and doubt, keeps us bound to one another; so too must we create a tethering to our own creativity. This commitment ensures that in times of doubt and inadequacy, we keep returning to it to deepen our craft.

Just as fire can transform food from its raw form into something digestible, our darknesses are radical transformers. Instead of airbrushing our personalities, we should practice at exaggerating our blemishes, leaning into our stagnancy, wounding, and discomforts. If we really want to evolve, all we have to do is be more expressly where we are.

Once you’ve given thanks and made your intent, throw your symbolic object off a bridge, burn it in a fire, bury it in a grave—but dispose of it and let it be final. There are a million tiny heartbreaks in every failed friendship, every disappointed hope, every extended hand denied, and we must grieve them all. But at a certain point, we also must s

It may seem obvious, but two things are absolutely necessary to creating community over the long term: someone willing to take the lead and invite others to gather, and someone willing to answer that call.

When we weave our threads together, we become response-able for each other. Which is to say, we now have the ability to respond to the other’s experience as if it was, in some way, our own.

I longed for indigenous, earth-centred practices, which put dreaming back into the hands of the people.

the love song is never truly happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain.

Yang is the arrow that speeds to its target, turning our dreams into realities.

In these situations, it’s important to make an act of closure, even symbolically. This begins with forgiving both yourself and the other for your limitations.