self renewal

explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.

rob hardy

If we don’t know how to mourn and rebuild, we are incentivized to keep the storms of our lives raging indefinitely.

Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.

Heidi Priebe • Tweet

A leading indicator of personal growth is how curious you are able to be with all your emotions - especially the ones you weren't allowed to feel as a kid.

Joe Hudson • Tweet

We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”

The On Being Project • Living the Questions

Have faith: whatever the goal, the universe will provide lessons. Those lessons will either contain the growth to make you strong enough to accomplish the goal, or the wisdom to see a better goal.

Emmett Shear • Tweet

as I spend more time away from the internet– being with my family, being in nature, reflecting on my childhood– it’s become clearer to me that lots of my frenetic online poasting over the years was a coping mechanism, a response to feeling fragmented, disconnected, unlovable

Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet

I am not sure that I exist, actually.

I am the writers that I have read; the people that I have I have met; the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

— Jorge Luis Borges, 1981

twitter.com • Geneia@home @home

“It’s the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny’s, wear a hat, whatever you wanna do.” -Norm Macdonald

“The times are urgent. Let us slow down.” —Bayo Akomolafe