Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
From the broad temporality
that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent
only on what it leaves behind.
That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as
the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”
in
fl
uence to de
fi
ne exactly what was
meant
by these marks.
that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent
only on what it leaves behind.
That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as
the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”
in
fl
uence to de
fi
ne exactly what was
meant
by these marks.
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was better to hear the unhappy details of such a life from the lips of the man who had led it rather than from someone else. Mothers often portrayed fathers in too flattering a light. Obituaries rarely told the whole story, especially when their subjects led classified lives.
Daniel Silva • The Black Widow
Meanwhile, given that everything we write comes to us via the many lenses of the experiences we’ve accumulated across a life—we speak of trees, for example, according to what we know of trees by actual experience and through what we’ve experienced of trees in books, movies, nursery rhymes, and more—then everything we do is at some level research... See more
Devin Kelly • Carl Phillips's "Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back"
“Don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food. go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things… keep growing your world. Feed yourself, and have plenty of abundance left over — to feed your guests.”
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All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize the yearning for things to come;
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the... See more
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the... See more
When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests and new ideas or topics. Everything gets pulled into the orbit of your intellectual curiosity. You can go deeper and deeper into a narrow topic, one that seems fascinatingly trivial and end up learning about the big topics: gender, culture,... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
What we have is a compounded problem, in which people with generational wealth pull the levers on a society that they don’t understand. Whether corporate policies or social welfare or college financial aid, nearly every aspect of society has been designed by people unfamiliar with not only the experience of living in poverty but the experience of... See more