Nurture

That's how you live free

To truly see and be seen

The hard truth is that no one gets to be in community without effort.

Pay attention to things as if they are too small to fit in your head—and feel love seep out of you. Do small acts of kindness and don’t take credit. Care more than necessary.

There’s a name for these kinds of paths , she says, and the idea sounds familiar, but we can’t remember what they’re called. Later she looks it up and texts me. Of course. They’re called “desire paths.” The path that your heart wants to follow, heeding some kind of internal call, even if it’s not the way you think you should go.

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You made it this far. Thank you kind stranger for believing in the power of artistry. I am not a fan of marketing, being on our phone, promoting brands of any kind. Please let us throw out phones into the ocean, and return to trusting strangers, and believing that nothing is out to get you.

We all deserve healing. Kindness. Silence. Reflection. And ... See more

But the point is: you have to loosen some constraints to give yourself a chance at solving the key problems: they are hard enough in themselves. If you impose as many constraints on yourself as the average person does, the likelihood that you will pull off what is most central to you approaches zero. So, seek clarity on which constraints are real a... See more