Thought provoking
Good writing is meditative writing. It’s a polished and cohesive train of thought, devoid of superfluous babble. If intrusive thoughts make their way into your writing and you neglect to edit them out, your work will suffer. Quality writing does not arise from a stream of consciousness or absent-mindedness. It’s a practice of meditating on a... See more
Jen Hitze • Attention, Distraction, and Your Responsibility
If I approach our house as a hobby instead of a chore, maybe I’ll find the time to stain the front door, refinish a dresser, varnish the hardwood floor, create a nook of my own.
Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
Treat my home as the hobby
Whenever you hear yourself saying “I have to…”, change it to “I choose to…” Remembering you have choices does wonders for your well-being.
Julie Zuho
The Chinese symbol for crisis 危机 is composed of two elements: one signifies danger and the other opportunity.
I also grieve the need we feel to explain our love or give it a name. To feel that it might be unacceptable in some circles. And of course, I know that it is. Especially for Black men
What is Glazing?
For the first two decades of life, we are pushed along a straight and wide river. But, somewhere around age 20, we get spit out and left to cross an unknown sea without any prescribed path or good guidance.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. —Anthony Brandt, writer
Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
our lives, thanks to their finitude, are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time. Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son—a thought that appalls me, but one that’s hard to deny, since I surely won’t be doing it when he’s thirty—there will be a last time that you visit your childhood home, or... See more