Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
The change got handed up before it got handed down, and only the slow perspective, the long view, lets you see the power that lies in ordinary people, in movements, in campaigns that often are seen as unrealistic, extreme, aiming for the impossible at their inception.
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Reading Obama's Dreams from my Father showed me this. #books
Sometimes seeing it is sudden, because change has been going on all along but you finally recognize it.
Rebecca Solnit • Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
Martin Luther King Jr. famously said that “the arc of history is long but it bends toward justice,”
Rebecca Solnit • Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
Anyone who’s gotten over a heartbreak or a bereavement knows that there aren’t five stages of grief you pass through like they were five whistlestop towns on the train route. You are more this way one day and more that way the other, looping and regressing, and maybe building reconciliation or acceptance like a log cabin while living in sorrow, rat
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undergo extraordinary transformations, heal others, find and lose love, and grow old, for the formation of characters, the building and tearing down of relationships, the arrival of those revelations that can only arrive slowly.
Rebecca Solnit • Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
In this moment, 6/30 at 6:30, I am listening to How I Write #podcasts and they are discussing how even though they seem extraneous, unnecessary, and annoying, anecdotes and 'boring parts' (such as in books) are necessary for the buildup.
We lose something by trying to summarize or get the meat out of everything. David notes a highlight reel of only punchlines wouldn't be as impactful. A song that gets straight to the drop (or bridge) wouldn't hit the same.
It's the journey that makes it memorable, even if it's not as engaging in the moment.