yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling. civic optimist based in SF
If you’re committed to adopting a Brat mindset this summer, know that sometimes you have to ditch the resumé building and manifestation journaling in favor of just staring in the mirror and feeling really hot. To be a brat is to bypass the bogus treadmill that women are placed on in order to achieve. In other words, you don’t fucking care what they... See more
I liked mattering. I can live with less money and with “regular” cars and without a job title ... it’s very possible to live a very nice life without those things. But mattering ... yeah, I miss that. I want to figure out how to matter again1. Let’s put a pin in that one, consider it a work in progress.
my sense is that people who take a long time to respond to messages, or tend to go into shame spirals about them, often put a lot of pressure on themselves to respond in a specific way
I guess if we’re talking about joy, writing, and being a fully rendered person in the world, my main sources of liveliness are so human and obvious they might seem facile: 1) loving the people I love with full throttle abandon – my guy, our kids, my mom and dad, our gaggle of brothers, my army of girlfriends. So that’s advice, maybe: make as many... See more
Coolness is an elusive concept without a universal definition, allowing everyone to have their own interpretation. Some people’s entire job is making sure you don’t remember that.