Quotes & Poems 💗

"None of us can control what a career in the arts will look like.

What we can control is what it's like to have a life that's dedicated to something.

And we need to be practical to put, cups of tea on the table and a bit of food.

But what we can control I think is where we lay our devotion.

And devotion will not only be in what we write, but it will

Today by Maya Luna

Today I gave up

On healing my trauma

I gave up

On practicing the skills

To become whole

Today I gave up

On evolving

Into that ever elusive

Better version of myself

Today I submitted

To the wound of love

I stopped pointing at it

Looking at it

Soothing it

Tweaking it

Fixing it

Finessing it

Hiding it

Polishing it

I stopped this game of separation

I

Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginning might

In the words of Anne Frank, “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others

   (do not forget the pigeon’s food).

As you conduct your wars, think of others

   (do not forget those who seek peace).

As you pay your water bill, think of others

   (those who are nursed by clouds).

As you return home, to your home, think of others

   (do not forget the people of the camps).

As you sleep

Your Personal Brand includes both your personal and professional identity. It also includes both online and offline communication, as well as both explicit and implicit communication. We FILTER what we share in each situation depending on the context and the audience. - Dr Andrea Wojnicki

We have not built a human-needs-first society; we have built a business-needs-first society, and it is starting to show.

‘People do what the network rewards. Writers write for the feed. Photographers shoot for the scroll. Newsrooms frame stories as conflict because conflict travels faster than nuance. Even our emotional lives adapt to latency and refresh cycles. The design of the network becomes the choreography of daily life.’

Tech veteran Om Malik on why today’s