Chubmeister 5000

we are existentially enveloped in magic, mystery, and love

We could say the pain

was a block so great

it could not be moved.

We could say love

did not try to move it.

Love simply dissolved the mass

and surrounded it

the way water meets a block of salt,

breaking apart each ionic bond

until every atom of sodium and chloride

is surrounded by molecules of water.

And in this way,

and sooner than you’d think,

the pain was... See more

In general, you will look for excuses to not be kind to people. Resist these.

Your prompt for the week:

Search for something in your life that has sat unused for too long. It could be an object, a space, an old journal, a dream. Write about how you could repurpose it—where it has been, what it means to you, what it could become.

I recently learned that ambition doesn't need to only correlate with money, prestige, status (shocking, I know). Ambition is really just another way of saying that one has "an aspiration to be excellent". Excellent at anything . This can be excellence at work, professionally. It can be creative excellence. It can be excellence at being kind,... See more

if you have a full long and healthy marriage, you're going to talk to each other for at 20,000 hours, so having good conversations is a pretty high value thing https://t.co/jUhbqHihMg