everything is a conversation

the era of the Agenda having authority over thriving, successful individuals is over. people are starting to think for themselves again, and whenever they do so out in public (like sydney did here), swaths of people behind the scenes who have felt trapped by the Agenda cheer and feel more and more free. this will continue. and the ideologically... See more

No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.

— René Girard

“But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

-Haruki Murakami

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

- Mary Oliver

I think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I don’t always want to do it, and it’s not always technically enjoyable; sometimes it’s boring or slow, sometimes it’s tiring and pointless, sometimes it’s cold or wet or windy and I’m retracing the same... See more

There are only so many ways to begin talking, but with each exchange, the combinatorial space of what might come next expands dramatically. By the tenth turn of a genuine dialogue, we’re navigating billions of potential conversational states.