Things that make you go Hmmmm
Anything like true social justice, mutual aid, or “team human” as I’ve come to call it, happens in that mycelial, connected, doula space where compassion resides and domination has no place: there are no subjects and objects, just relationships.
Douglas Rushkoff • Everything is In-Between
How To Spot High Agency People
- Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.
- Treadmill energy - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Foraging vs Hunting
“Forage to find questions to ask. Hunt to find answers”
Passive vs. active. Or divergent v. convergent? Serendipitous vs. deliberate?
Know What You’re
Not
Available For
This one goes back to knowing your energetic needs. We’ve all done relationships the wrong way. What did you learn from that? Alchemizing relational trauma into lessons is a more fruitful use of your attention than ruminating on the past. Here are some self reflections to consider:
✍️ In what ways are my failed... See more
Not
Available For
This one goes back to knowing your energetic needs. We’ve all done relationships the wrong way. What did you learn from that? Alchemizing relational trauma into lessons is a more fruitful use of your attention than ruminating on the past. Here are some self reflections to consider:
✍️ In what ways are my failed... See more
Britnei Nicole • A New Type Of Conscious Relationship
As I’ve been suggesting through my last few pieces, these subjects and news stories are more like the figures on the TV than the ground on which we actually live. Yes, they are real events and have real repercussions. But to most of us, most of these phenomena are not directly related to our lived, moment-to-moment experience. Even if our house is... See more
Everything is In-Between
“What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spirit was preceded by careful preparation.
When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its... See more
When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its... See more
A quote from Beauty
First, I'll share one of my recent email declines: "This is such a fascinating subject, but I fear I've taken on too many blurb requests in the past few months and gave myself a self-reinforced pause. My apologies"