How are you (un)doing? 🧶 ✨ 🙃
A struggle inward rather than upward or outward, a reorientation away from growth in an objective sense.
I’m working on becoming more aware, ultimately—just as good at noticing what’s always been here as what’s just arrived or hasn’t yet. No surprise I’m basically just describing mindfulness, one of the oldest human pursuits, increasingly urgent. So... See more
I’m working on becoming more aware, ultimately—just as good at noticing what’s always been here as what’s just arrived or hasn’t yet. No surprise I’m basically just describing mindfulness, one of the oldest human pursuits, increasingly urgent. So... See more
#198: Trying to see something
The balance between being and doing is hard. We are obsessed with doing - and when we are not doing, we are looking at our phones, which is the doing that has replaced being. How to build a self ? How to find time to reflect? Time off has become the exercise class, self-improvement, a trip to the therapist, a vacation where the to-do and to-see lis
... See moreJeanette Winterson • SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
what we really need—more so than righteous disdain or brash new policy—is a slower conception of what it even means to be productive in the first place.