Emma
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Emma
I want to tell you how hard it is to unplug in a world that seems so deeply and at times pathologically tethered to plugging in, logging on, and using screens as a means of connection… and I want to tell you there is a vast amount of embodied connection that is available in the flesh of life all around us, and the struggle to orient toward it more
... See moreThe kind of world they want to live in is the nightmare . So the job is to resist adopting their mindset. How? To sit with the hard feelings and strengthen our ability to get through them together. To practice, in small quiet ways, what life might be like when we run out of rope on this particular version of it. To double down on being human,... See more
Revisiting collapse, a year later
In time, Bosker too started “viewing the everyday the way I looked at art,” with considered attention, openness. Elsewhere she writes:
“Beauty is that moment when your mind jumps the curb. Beauty is the instant you sit up and start paying attention. Whatever makes that happen for you can be beautiful. … But you have to be open to seeing it. Beauty... See more
“Beauty is that moment when your mind jumps the curb. Beauty is the instant you sit up and start paying attention. Whatever makes that happen for you can be beautiful. … But you have to be open to seeing it. Beauty... See more
Rob Walker • One More Thing
When we lose sight of beauty our struggle becomes tired and functional. When we expect and engage the Beautiful, a new fluency is set free within us and between us.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling us what it is, I think it would exist
... See moreI want to explore what feels like the transcendent power of beauty to change our lives. That was the motivating question behind Beautiful World, Where Are You—the title sums it up. I have spoken about my ideological commitments—how I look at the contemporary world through a Marxist lens and through the lens of climate change, and how I feel like
... See moreTo create beauty is to grow and return to what was always there. To chisel away and to embrace. To birth and to release. Beauty is not inherent. It is not affixed, or perfect. True beauty is not insertable, and it is not applicable. Beauty is cultivated. Beauty is honest. Beauty is a way of life. Be, always, beautiful.