rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
To be human is to be “a history-making creature who can neither repeat the past nor leave it behind,” noted W. H. Auden in a brief biographical sketch of D. H. Lawrence. In Kierkegaard’s most famous words: “Life must be lived forwards, but it can be understood only backwards.” And as Mark Twain put it in his inimitable style, “Although the past may
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manifestory and
"When death finds you, may it find you alive."
-African proverb
-African proverb
twitter.com • Geneia@home @home
"Artifacts of humanity" in creative work — in the form of dust, mistakes, and deliberate strokes that flex human engagement — will showcase the human labor spent making a creation. Such artifacts of humanity, alongside Content Credentials that factually articulate how a piece of work was made, will add meaning and scarcity to the work in the eyes... See more
Scott Belsky • The Law of Displacement Speed & Leveraging Artifacts of Humanity
The Forest and
Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot
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self renewal and
Manifestos are fiction dressed as fact.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
aliveness and
True resonance is paradise - it feels like mutual nourishment because nothing needs to be diminished. What once required disciplined inversion and measured restraint now feels expansive - because, for once, you are just being . Your soul is nourished by the ease of it - shedding layers, lovingly existing as you are. It is a cathartic remembering of... See more
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resonance and