Human Interactions/Relationships & Connections
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Human Interactions/Relationships & Connections
Commitment
Musings on committing and continually showing up to a place, a profession, or a person in an age of endless opportunities + persevering - even and especially when it's hard.
sari and • 61 cards
Being too busy to give any real time to a relationship is like not watering a potato crop, I say to him, using his own language. If I explain how I feel in my own, the wires in his brain twist and knot and he just has to dash out for air.
Judy Fairbairns • Island Wife: living on the edge of the wild
Over the course of 14 hours, we rolled up our sleeves and got our hands dirty generating creative ideas to address disconnection, loneliness, polarization, and other deep-rooted societal challenges.
Disconnection is the disease. Creativity is the cure. The creativity revolution has begun.
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Loneliness
sari and • 25 cards
My fondest memories, however, are of the good people—total strangers—who did really nice things for us. Perhaps people who live closer to nature are inherently kinder and more generous.
J.R. Harris • Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker
The Opposite of Lonliness
MargaretC • 5 cards
When hyper-individualism kicked into gear in the 1960s, people experimented with new ways of living that embraced individualistic values. Today we are crawling out from the wreckage of that hyper-individualism—which left many families detached and unsupported—and people are experimenting with more connected ways of living, with new shapes and... See more
David Brooks • The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
Jay is the ideal trekking partner. Not only does he have all the requisite backcountry skills; he also has a good attitude—that essential attribute for this kind of endeavor. He keeps his sense of humor even when he is hurting, and he carries his weight, literally and figuratively. He is there when you need him, but he never steps into your
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