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- The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squar... See morefrom The Invitation, a poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer by Esther Ekhart
beautiful poem
- Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a
... See morefrom Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- community is our collective midwife for the birth of change.
- Innovative Ideas fuelled by Emotional Intelligence
from Jack London
- The shiny allure of new overrides the quiet power of compounding in a way that’s easy to overlook.
from Staying Put by Morgan Housel
- ’ve always been a tactile learner and lover of systems, and structures that help with application and retention
from WePresent | Cosmically Speaking: An essay by Holly Murchison
- This is all to say: it’s worth listening when a place calls to you. It’s worth thinking about whether the place you live enables your goals or stands in their way. And it’s worth noticing what surroundings speak of enchantment, cultivate the conditions you feel at home in, and aim toward them. Life is more malleable than we think. It’s a surprise t... See more
from surroundings that speak of enchantment by Tommy Dixon
- “Design should also be sensual and exciting.”
from Creatives behind Glossier and Brat explain the new rules of branding
Sottsass came up in a modernist design world that valued rigidity, utility, and simplicity; asking designers to ask themselves what is necessary and drop everything else. As famed industrial designer Dieter Rams has said, “Good design is as little design as possible.” Sottsass epitomizes basically the complete opposite of that.
Sottsass’s work made the case for the necessity of the superfluous. Expressive use of color, form, and decorative elements are elemental to design done well. In the modern era, design is leaning into sensuality and excitement too.