Commonplace

"Everyone's wellbeing is community business" - Luvvie Ajayi Jones in her TED talk 'Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable'

( https://youtu.be/QijH4UAqGD8?si=pPGE1XkhaesdS5AI )

I love this quote. As someone whose wellbeing has been/is helped by community and cares deeply for others' wellbeing, I feel its truth.

We should all care about our

"That fact is that art and artists, they do not exist in watertight compartments. Their individual personality, their cultural background will always come through whether it's poetry, or music, or acting, or writing, it will find an expression." - Javed Javed Akhtar

Documentary the Roshans episode 1.

"Images and conversations played rapidly across her brain, a never-ending stream of thoughts and feelings tied together by no theme more specific than that they were hers"

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton P213

"Expectations are resentments under construction."

-Almost Everything by Anne Lamott chapter 12.

"Actually kind of the most anti-consumer thing that you can do is teach a seventh grader how to make their own clothes or dye something from a waste of something else"

- Sasha Duerr on Botanical Colors Feedback Friday: Mapping Color with Sasha Duerr + Maibe Maroccolo

"We turn to our artists for the truth and the artists right now we have to tell the truth. We have to be honest because we can't trust anyone else. We have to speak for our communities and tell the truth"

-Jinkx Monsoon on The Bald And The Beautiful

Jinkx is talking about how currently politicians and media are lying and biased and society turns to

"Defensiveness chased vulnerability from her face"

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton P75

"You cant tell the truth in someone else's voice"

-Anne Lamott speaking with Tami Simon for Insights At The Edge podcast 'Radical Self Care Changes Everything’

"I hope this email finds you beneath a beautiful sky with the wind tenderly caressing your hair like an invisible mother." The Comfort Book by Matt Haig P137