lightness
These women, many of them girls, found that in running away from their mothers, they had become them. We love to live in memory. We love the lightness with which we can slip into who we were.
C. (10) PAINS & DISLOCATIONS — THE LEMMING
“If this is the best that civilization can do for the human, then give us howling and naked savagery. Far better to be a people of the wilderness and desert, of cave and the squatting-place, than to be a people of the machine and the Abyss.”
Jack London: The Function of Man is to LIVE, not to Exist
Jack London
the discomfort will shift to stillness. and that stillness? it’s expansive
yana yuhai • How to Pay Attention Again
In fact, I would say that coincidences are the defining feature of stories, which exist to connect people or events in our minds.
It’s literally in the word: the concurrence of incidents.
It’s literally in the word: the concurrence of incidents.
algorithms are killing coincidences. what does that mean for language?

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Earth Poet • Love Poems for Winter Solstice
According to Todd Pezzuti, Caleb Warren and Jinjie Chen in their study Cool People , the earliest roots of cool lie in the African diaspora, in West African ideas like itutu (Yoruba for “coolness”), which refers to a state of spiritual composure and grace under pressure. Confronting the brutal realities of slavery and Jim Crow, African Americans... See more
The collapse of cool
Battling the Sea on the Outer Banks
Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home.