Sparks
“What tense would you choose to live in?” the poet Osip Mandelstam once asked his journal, before answering his own question. “I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle—in the ‘what ought to be.’”
David Farrier • Wild Clocks – David Farrier
We see the world as we are
—Anaiis Nin
When we know what we want, when we hold a vision of the world we want to create, we inspire people.
21. Agency Part Four: How Groups Create Agency, and Checklist
The more varied roles we provide for people, the more people we can involve who have their own varied needs and talents. When people can exercise their gifts, can make an impact directly on those around them and can feel that they are needed and valued, they feel a sense of agency that can help them tolerate the frustrations involved in long term o... See more
21. Agency Part Four: How Groups Create Agency, and Checklist
On repetition in writing (poetry)
It has to be said, it has to be heard and it cannot be heard the first time.
This has to be heard, and it has to be heard in the spirit in which is being conveyed
David Whyte in Tim Ferris podcast
Traveler, your footprints
Are the path and nothing more;
Traveller, there is no path,
The path is made by walking.
By walking the path is made
And when you look back
You’ll see a road
Never to be trodden again.
Traveller, there is no path,
Only trails across the sea
Antonio Machado
Time lives in the body, not as the tick of the clock, but as a pulse in the blood. It is a thought, buried deep in nerve, leaf, and gene.
Wild Clocks – David Farrier
