Margaret McCormack

every healthy relationship / friendship / family i know has rituals. sunday morning walks, post-dinner games, weekly movie nights, yearly trips. not that the 'activity' itself seems to matter. just that spending quality time together has become a habit.

Something I’m embarrassed to have never known until I moved to the Netherlands a few years ago... despite being a total US history nerd... is how much of the Mayflower story my teachers simply left out.. or maybe didn't even know. The people we now call the “Pilgrims” (a label they never actually used themselves) didn’t... See more

bro we cannot sit and stare at our wounds forever

a lot of people in super chill corporate or big tech jobs seem to feel numb because nothing really demands anything of them. that’s the cost of too little pressure seems there’s a sweet spot where work has just enough tension to feel meaningful, without swallowing your whole life but that... See more

Girl to girl at some point, you have to stop letting your depression win. You have to stop sitting in the same room, replaying the same thoughts, waiting for something to change. Nobody’s coming to save you, it’s on you to save yourself. Get up. Take a shower. Go for a walk. Work on that dream you’ve been putting off. It doesn’t have to be perfect,... See more

i heard an older woman say let love find you in your living not in your longing and i have been chewing on that ever since

Chores are the price you must pay for a clean living space. And also an opportunity to reflect on thine own wickedness