Joseph Burgess

Curation is care. It says: I thought about this. I chose it. I didn’t just repost it. I didn’t just regurgitate the trending take. I took the time to decide what was worth passing on.

Awase in toriawase means to put things together for congruous harmony. And these things are normally related things, ‘related’ for a wide-ranging reasons.

Mary is the model of the faith to which God calls all of us: a total and unreserved yes to God’s request to be present in and to the world through us .

And yet she chose the growing edge,

To be anti-elitist, however, is to stop caring about attention as a metric of quality, because those who already have it will always win. It requires caring about the people who aren’t on magazine covers and don’t have hundreds of thousands of followers. It requires engaging in smaller-scale, more private, and more coherent efforts — the community... See more

The Way is easy. Just avoid choosing.’ He then added, ‘but as soon as you use words, you’re saying, “This is choosing,” or “This is clarity.” This old monk can’t stay in clarity. Do you still hold on to anything or not?’ (My translation.)

“Impermanence is itself Buddha Nature.”

Without missing a beat, Brother Paul answered in his joyful tone, “God cannot love you more. God already loves you infinitely. You just need to become more aware of [God’s] love ... by becoming more present to it. It’s like hearing birdcalls. By paying attention and delighting in it.”

Train on what data? Clip which quote? These decisions—call them taste, discernment, subjectivity—these are the reasons we still turn to human work.