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Do you know someone who sees the world in a way that reveals new hues to you? Whose sense of self-awareness leads them to move with arresting originality, and invites you to do the same just by nature of being in their aura? It’s that quality I’m increasingly drawn to during these times when it’s all too tempting to see life in dark shades and dull... See more
Compliments are an other-oriented token that don’t demand a response from the person they are directed to. They also don’t usually require the receiver to reveal anything — the compliment affirms that what they chose to reveal has been seen and noted.
I might have approached the librarian with something along the lines of, “I love your dress. I had ... See more
fascinating how you can spend years experimenting and wandering through curiosity without direction…
and then suddenly end up in a place where it’s clear that everything was leading up to this —every seemingly-arbitrary fork and tangent was sharpening you for this exact moment
“The intimacy that comes with time and attention allows us to be vulnerable with others. This intimacy, across a group, can become a durable network—like mycelia. We are strongest when we feel safe being soft.” To me, that network feels like security.