the human condition
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live... See more
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
The famous misprint from Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 book, “The medium is the Massage”, may actually be revelatory. Online linguistic collisions and their downstream cultural effects can be remediated by physical touch.
Not only do we thrive under touch, we physically need it. Cultures where physical affection toward infants was high had low levels of... See more
Not only do we thrive under touch, we physically need it. Cultures where physical affection toward infants was high had low levels of... See more
Rue Yi • The Balkanization and Babelification of the Internet
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes
... See moreThe self is not a destination; it’s a lifelong draft, a slow burn, a soft becoming.
the slow burn of becoming yourself
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
