Forest Linden
@forestlinden
Eternal learner, rabbit holer, curator, and synthesizer. Father, husband, my dog's human, and wilderness wanderer. I write only when I have something worth saying and try to help people through my writing.
Forest Linden
Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
~ Anonymous
Because right now there is someone
Out there with
a wound in the exact shape
of your words.
Out there with
a wound in the exact shape
of your words.
Sean Thomas Dougherty • “Why Bother” by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Why write?
How do you know you’re on your path? Because it disappears. You can’t see where you’re going. That’s how you know.
-David Whyte
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Frodo and Gandalf
JCCFS
folkschool.org
Inspiration for an offline adult summer camp.
Great overview of the impact of AI generated results showing up at the top of search results, and the current push of Google, ChatGPT search, and Perplexity to push away and bury links to any websites. SEO and the old way of searching is dying right before our eyes.
The end of a melody is not its goal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you feel pain, you are alive.
If you feel other people’s pain, you are a human being.
-Leo Tolstoy
... See moreYou are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure. Put yourself in situations where you have too much at stake to waste time or resources--if you c