Jenna Guarascio
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Jenna Guarascio
- That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
less ”things I have learned“ lists and more ”things I am learning” — because sometimes it takes a minute…or a lifetime
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.
It’s impossible for a muddy thinker to write good English. He may get away with it for a paragraph or two, but soon the reader will be lost, and there’s no sin so grave…
On Writing Well, William Zinsser- When you have trouble writing, it’s usually because you don’t know what you’re trying to say. Most writing problems are actually thinking problems. And you can't copyedit your way out of poor thinking.
Optimization alone can't get you novelty or interestingness.
- sometimes the grass is greener because it's fake
- Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.