I have ADHD and that means being present is VERY DIFFICULT. It often feels impossible. But art really helps. So here’s a little prompt to stop time by making art :)
I am obsessed with people who change their minds. People who pivot from jobs that make them unhappy and relationships that don’t serve them anymore. Life is too short to be in places where you know you don’t belong.
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Teach while you learn. Share what you’re working out in real time, not just what you’ve perfected. People don’t only need your conclusions, they need to see you in motion, reaching, trying, fumbling toward the thing.
Got up early and wrote in my nerdy little journal for a while about a bunch of bullshit that’s been weighing on my mind/holding me back and these things were frankly so lame it was mortifying to even admit them to myself and put them down on paper but now I can LIVE AGAIN. Just write it down and move the fuck on, I say.