@Lumi

The boat navigating across the ocean may need those coordinates, but the surfer or even the tiny fishing vessel may care more about the waves. Mapmakers can’t see those movements; the waves do not exist. But that’s where the action is.

I’ve spent most of life and career thinking of myself as an agent of change. I grew up at the end of the Vietnam War protests, and mixed one part Brechtian activist theater to another part prophetic Judaism and ended up at the TWO protests and Occupy Wall Street. I really believed we could use those deliberate mechanisms to create policy, fight the... See more

One of the smartest thinkers on the subject is an author named Sonya Renee Taylor. She argues that self-love is our natural condition. Babies, she says, don’t enter the world criticizing their thighs. They learn to do that via our toxic culture.

Next time you notice yourself in a toilet vortex of self-recrimination, bring to mind this slogan from So... See more

I’ll define freedom to keep playing as a domain-specific ability to see reality in unsentimental ways, and act on reality in appropriate ways.

Every choice that we make individually and collectively is a kind of prayer that aligns us with a certain reality and a certain future. It's a declaration of what a human being does in this circumstance. It says, Here is who I want to be. Here is the world I want to live in.