slowing down as a punk act of rebellion
Hollywood's Obsession with Ambition
youtube.comgardening as a counterforce to disconnect, a salve to the illusion of human separateness and control, and a path toward what it means to live a truly good life.
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
Anu Atluru on Substack
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Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify, to reduce and limit. The natural world is unfathomably more rich, interwoven, and complicated than we are taught, and so much more mysterious and beautiful.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
In a casual aside, Duke sociologist Keiran Healy offered a simple but terrifying observation.*
Culture has changed fundamentally.
It used to be the ballast of our world.
Now it creates chaos.
Culture has changed fundamentally.
It used to be the ballast of our world.
Now it creates chaos.
What if culture is the problem?
The nature of urban places simultaneously enchants us, educates us, and points us to the ever-presence of a wilderness beyond what we will ever see or experience. With attentiveness we discover that the places humans inhabit are far more biologically diverse than we imagined. With all the earth we share the presence of moon, clouds, weather, rooted
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Something I’ve always found really interesting about your work is the juxtaposition of slowness with a city like New York. I relate to striving to live my day-to-day at a slower pace because I think I’m naturally a slower, more meditative person, and I think it can clash with the pace of New York sometimes: the chaos, the traffic, the tons of peopl
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