Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
rootyarn.com
Prediction: the furious arrival of AI will create a renewed hunger for raw, unpolished, humanity. Invest in documenting your failures.
Fact: we live in a time where if you create consistently about something you love or obsess over; it may be a year, or five, but eventually, you'll find a level of success that'll likely... See more
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Resources and courses on bioregional design
We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and to hear silence, to name them, and
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− Subtraction & Depth
“As platforms combust around us, brands are frantically asking, “Where to next?”.... See more
We’ve done a familiar dance for over a decade: users have jumped from blogs to Myspace to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat to TikTok, and brands and ads have duly followed, collecting ever more data on our lives along the way. [...]
But what if
Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #103
From Rabbit Holes newsletter
Teachers should be guides of the learning journey, not authoritative instructors ready to dish out abuse or punishment when the child expresses non-conforming behaviors.
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
My fear was often that I am ignorant because of what I don't know. I actively spent energy resisting certain information from becoming something that I know. I pushed it away and there was a fear that this was some kind of laziness. It was definitely meant to save energy. And that energy was often used on staying in the unknowing, holding tension
... See moreAll of this research shows that we are the great masterworks of our own storytelling minds—figments of our own imaginations. We think of ourselves as very stable and real. But our memories constrain our self-creation less than we think, and they are constantly being distorted by our hopes and dreams. Until the day we die, we are living the story of
... See moreJonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Exhaustion and the way we behave under exhaustion being part of our identity and therefore hard to break out of.
Linked with habits and addictions and ‘denial or comfort hideouts’.
Feeling necessary to be exhausted to function in the system just like other forms of sedation.
It serves a purpose and is reinforced by the system and habits.
Link with
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