J. Danielle

Ours is the work of helping others hold those artifacts and insights in their hands, however briefly, and of considering what ought to be reserved from the ever-sucking vortex of oblivion—and why. It’s the calling known as education, which the literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak once defined as the “non-coercive rearranging of desire.”

This example harmonizes with the notion of the “Mozart effect,” an established theory that suggests music, particularly compositions with intricate structures like Mozart’s, can augment cognitive functions, including creative thinking.

It’s allowed me to cultivate the soil to suit my purposes—rather than having to adapt my garden to the soil I was given.

Everything worth having lives on the other side of effort.

Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance.

stress is a perverted relationship to time, so that rather than being a subject of your own time, you have become its target and victim, and time has become routine

The word community also came up more times than I could count, with young people desperate to live close to their friends (not their jobs) and have people around them who will love, support and accept them. However, it’s important to note that while the word “community” came up a handful of times, it was almost always used vaguely. Community is... See more

she felt “constantly bombarded”