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hanging out8

what are the values I look for in a community I want to be a part of? what does the community I want to be a part of look like?

Naomi Razic

“Familiarity is crucially the maintaining of weak ties, or else the maintaining of strong ties in weak ways. Some things can only be made strong by bi

"Belonging feels like you are seen and heard. You feel alive. You’ve been invited into any given group, and you know you can be honest with the people

starting somewhere, starting here10

the early days of doing something new

Naomi Razic

Manifesto for slow learning: 1. Focus on direction, not destination Immerse yourself completely i

defining good art19
Naomi Razic

My working definition of art is thus derived in part from both a moderate institutional theory that recognizes the important role that the museum spac

“The process of making art,” writes Rebecca Solnit, “is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning

You will never become a popular painter. You are too much of an individual for that. Yours is a harder task, and one that will have fewer en-couragers

building intention4
Naomi Razic

The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of th

I aspire to live consciously, to follow my own inherent energy, to help other human beings, and to immerse myself fully in the present moment.

stuff i need to read to get my spirits up18

reminders when I can't find the motivation to move.

Naomi Razic
strategy11

effective, creative, and inspiring roadmaps

Naomi Razic

A Purpose should be grounded in an everyday reality, but be able to stretch to an improbable goal. Ideally, one that wants to make the world a better

global vs local1
Naomi Razic
to learn3

how far can learning take us?

Naomi Razic

To me, education has do with being open, flexible, alive to ideas from everywhere. Unafraid of getting things wrong. No one knows anything in art anyw

Manifesto for slow learning: 1. Focus on direction, not destination Immerse yourself completely i

what is culture?2

"the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively"

Naomi Razic

"Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem, for tele

If museums don’t let more of the world in soon, soon the world will let fewer museums in. - Jerry Saltz

questions to live for1

the right questions may lead to the right answers.

Naomi Razic
small moments1

smelling the flowers. moments, situations, thoughts we should return to and remember from time to time.

Naomi Razic

"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordin