Why Fast Minds Love Slow Crafts
My product won’t write sentences for you. The slow process of writing is what clarifies thought, shapes identity, and cultivates a lens to the world. Writing is the whole point; it isn’t a chore to optimize, it’s an infinite game.
Michael Dean • Mega-Update
Like gardening, sewing is an investment in the future—in what sort of person your future self will be, and how she will feel about her body, and what she will want to wear.
Maddie Ballard • Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary
Gertruda Gilyte, another Protein contributor, responded to the lament, desires and questions I’d laid down with a potent thought about “what the future of ‘wellness’ (or ‘self-care’) can bring in both utopian and dystopian ways”. She proposed the counter centres around craft. Making our own sourdough, kimchi, gardening, foraging, knitting –... See more