everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
Only dead things are certain. Everything that is alive dances in different degrees of uncertainty.
from laura cincera on twitter - tweet
Most “communities” these days revolve around one person who keeps giving and giving while everyone else takes. A real community is reciprocal, but what you see now is one-sided labor disguised as “leadership.”
Hardship. Hard-'ship,' from the Old English word 'sciappan,' which means 'to shape' or 'to make.' Hard things shape us. Hard things make us
There’s even wisdom in the words themselves
“It’s the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny’s, wear a hat, whatever you wanna do.” -Norm Macdonald
frightening how many of our wounds come from trying to be less than we are
-river kenna
Not all questions seek answers, some seek journeys.
To be human is to be “a history-making creature who can neither repeat the past nor leave it behind,” noted W. H. Auden in a brief biographical sketch of D. H. Lawrence. In Kierkegaard’s most famous words: “Life must be lived forwards, but it can be understood only backwards.” And as Mark Twain put it in his inimitable style, “Although the past may
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If you relate to power as something to be opposed and fought, you have surrendered your own.