Jill Kammann
@jillkamm
Jill Kammann
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I
... See moreoverthinking has a way of tricking you into believing you’re making progress when really, you’re just rehearsing anxiety until it feels like fact.
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not "die" in the winter but quietly prepare for another season
James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
You hold them because you want to, not because you’re afraid of what happens if you let go.
find your soul before your soulmate
But maybe the point isn’t to choose the perfect life. Maybe the magic lies in choosing a life—your life, and walking it fully. Because when you do, even the smallest step begins to feel sacred. Not because it was the best possible choice, but because it was yours
the slow burn of becoming yourself
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
