how i want to live my life
What’s clarifying is that I do believe every person is important. That means working on a human scale matters. Things don’t feel small and petty if you really believe every life is precious and fully linked to all life on Earth. I may not be religious, but I hold community as sacred all the same.
Cultivating Non-Romantic Intimacy
Why would I care about the “way things are” if I’m actively trying to change that?
Mark Sabino • Camus and Curren$y: Why I Preach Indie

“What our hope must do, is go to work. Our hope has to be active, not merely by existing, but by fueling our diverse and unique approaches and dedication to change.”
Joycelyn Longdon
Author, Natural Connection
Joycelyn Longdon
Author, Natural Connection
The Root Of Climate Action Is Hope | Atmos
Here’s Hannah Power, on leaving Instagram:
“....the weird things that have happened as a direct consequence have been, well, weird. for instance, I haven’t missed it once. not once! I thought I would. I thought I would miss sharing my curated life, my walks through the streets of Lisbon, my pics screaming I am on holiday, but I haven’t. another... See more
The Social Media Sea Change
The good listener: someone who has learnt how to find bits of themselves in the experiences of others.
– Alain de Botton
– Alain de Botton
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“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
Celebrating 300 issues with a new community for DD readers 🎉
To love humans is not optimism; it requires an unrelenting, deliberate faith, the stubborn act of catching every dropped match and insisting it can still light a candle. It is choosing to notice the softness happening everywhere: a stranger pressing tissues into another’s palm, a barista sliding an extra biscuit across the counter, the way a lover... See more