when everything is important
on consuming information like a crazy person, but make it healthy
when everything is important
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
∆ Alain de Botton
∆ Alain de Botton
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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
∆ Hart Crane, from a letter quoted in Hart Crane: The Life of an American Poet by Philip Horton (Norton, 1937)
∆ Hart Crane, from a letter quoted in Hart Crane: The Life of an American Poet by Philip Horton (Norton, 1937)
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What do I mean by non-goal directed activity? In spaces, instead of looking for actions that advance a goal, we follow paths of attention that lead somewhere interesting. In a conversation with friends, you might attend to what you could reveal about yourself. At a jazz jam, you might attend to dynamics contrasts. While dancing, you might explore b... See more
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A shared space not for expanding or building taller, but for filling with objects of memories and values. To strangers it might just look like a jumble of junk. To the friends involved, it is an ever growing shrine of a communal history.