Maria Potoroczyn
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Maria Potoroczyn
You have to speak from the diaphragm. That’s the only way that your words carry, is when you give them strength. Belief begins in the body.
If you stand in traffic, it will stop. It’s still a gamble. The cars have places to be, you’re an obstacle, an obstruction to their daily flow. But if you stand there, with confidence, they might pause and slow ... See more
If you stand in traffic, it will stop. It’s still a gamble. The cars have places to be, you’re an obstacle, an obstruction to their daily flow. But if you stand there, with confidence, they might pause and slow ... See more
You can love your kids deeply and hate being a mom. You can hold your children to the bone and still proclaim how sucky it is to be a female parent, in America at least, with our lack of paid family leave or high-quality day care and the cultural insistence that “good women” should stake their entire lives on the opportunity.
Elise Loehnen • Opinion | The Lies Mothers Tell Themselves and Their Children
You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world.
Aaron Freeman • Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral - The Now
My boyfriend and I had just hired a nanny to spend three days a week caring for our baby, to do a kind of work that I’d been shocked to find intimately rewarding but also far harder than anything I’d ever tried to do for eight hours straight. We could afford to do this because a person can get paid more to sit in front of her computer and send a bu... See more
Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being — Current Priorities of the U.S. Surgeon General
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When Swifties jump so hard they create "seismic activity" in Seattle, when being at a Beyoncé concert feels like "dipping your whole body into an ocean of pure creative source alongside 80,000 other people," as a friend recently texted, these concerts are doing something deeper than entertaining: they’re providing moments of collective healing.
You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world.
Aaron Freeman • Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral - The Now
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good vis... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Making things is hard and I feel like that’s the most useful thing to say about it. You have to try to be consistent, you have to practice constantly, you have to read, and you can’t make yourself be interested in topics you aren’t interested in. And you have to accept that it’s always going to be challenging. My friend said this about her work, wh... See more