lightness
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
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?
We are mental athletes at shrugging such things off, but there is a cost to our stoicism. From small humiliations and slights, large blocks of resentment eventually form that render us unable to love or trust. What we call depression is sadness and anger that have for too long not been paid their dues.
How to Think More Effectively - The School of Life. (Book)
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
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
Miles Davis Quote
Miles Davis
the discomfort will shift to stillness. and that stillness? it’s expansive