"how are you being" https://jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/summer-solstice-2022?r=h8tih&s=r
are.na"how are you being" https://jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/summer-solstice-2022?r=h8tih&s=r
Is authenticity the goal or itself a performance?
Messy desks and the myth of the perfect workspace
instead of asking:
how can i be more like them?
ask:
how can i be more like me?
how many versions of me do i occupy? where do they live? how do they grow? what will they bloom into? what rituals do they practice? how do they show care to others? what are they afraid of? what do they dream about at night?
Who Am I?
Look deep into the recesses of your being, and identify everything you think makes you, you.
Traverse all your mind’s pathways, and locate every desire and thought. Summon every opinion and belief, every interest and passion, and interrogate each and every one, relentlessly.
Ask them where they came from, and who planted them. Ask them if... See more
Look deep into the recesses of your being, and identify everything you think makes you, you.
Traverse all your mind’s pathways, and locate every desire and thought. Summon every opinion and belief, every interest and passion, and interrogate each and every one, relentlessly.
Ask them where they came from, and who planted them. Ask them if... See more
The Pursuit
1. Inner Life & Identity (Self-in-Context)
What part of me feels most alive or most distant today?
What assumptions about myself did I notice, reinforce, or challenge?
Where am I performing, and where am I simply being?
What part of me wants to be seen—but hasn’t yet found the words?
What feels like “mine,” and what feels inherited or borrowed?
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