belonging

I keep a collection of things that don’t matter. At least, that’s what I’d have to tell you if you asked me to justify it in terms of outcomes, deliverables, or return on investment. Quotes that lead nowhere. Ideas that connect to nothing actionable. Fragments of beauty too strange to categorize. I save them the way some people save ticket stubs or... See more

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves... See more

In many ways, we are very similar to mycelium. 

We need the right conditions to survive and a constant flow of oxygen. We need to communicate to grow.

We need to connect to live.