Joseph
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Joseph
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
David Foster Wallace • This is Water
To humiliate an enemy, he warned, is to provide it with a vendetta.
Israel’s Zones of Denial
\Vhat is different is the way they use and experience time. For the Tiv, time is like a capsule. There is a time for visit-ing, for cooking, or for working; and when one is in one of these times, one does not shift to another.
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer,”
Maria Popova • How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
“And I think it was memory that saved us. You see, we have already known that
Adam Nossiter • ‘Memory Saved Us’: How France Blocked the Far Right
The past wasn’t as good as you remember. The present isn’t as bad as you think. The future will be better than you anticipate.
Collaborative Fund • A Message From the Past
Gathering is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Mindy Seu