sparks

I keep hearing a voice in my head that says, “The second half of your life doesn’t have to look anything like the first half of your life. The first half was bound; the second half is free.” Free, free, ever more free. Free from my own distorted thinking, free from any lingering shame and fear and resentments, free from expectations. This what I

Sari Botton • This is 54: Author Elizabeth Gilbert Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

Today, America needs balls. And so balls are what we must reward.

-SOLANA

Age of Balls

Do you understand his temperament as an act of denial or an act of acceptance?

What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.

I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more

Opinion | Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’

DMs saying “Hey I made this THING. Do you want it?” work better than emails (immediate “verification” of who you are in one click, etc.)

The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.

never trust a thought you have indoors

I feel a wave of dystopia whenever I confront the intellectual inconsistency of highly educated people.

37 years, 37 realisations.

I hope the sense of struggling, rather than knowing, is palpable here.

Rayne Fisher-Quann • the ends of empathy

love the honesty here - it’s not write what you know, it’s write to understand what you don’t know