Sherah Beck
@sherah
Sherah Beck
“People will always try to control you by constraining your sense of what’s possible. They want to tell you that reality consists of only the things that they are willing to recognize, and anything else is foolishness.”
Excerpt From
Never Say You Can't Survive
Charlie Jane Anders
https://books.apple.com/us/book/never-say-you-cant-survive/id1534582236
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“Don’t Panic — Autocracy Takes Time
President-elect Donald Trump’s return to power is unnerving but America will not turn into a dictatorship overnight — or in four years. Even the most determined strongmen face internal hurdles, from the bureaucracy to the media and the courts. It took Erdoğa well over a decade to fully consolidate his power. Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Poland’s Law and Justice Party needed years to erode democratic norms and fortify their grip on state institutions.”
Moments like these make me acutely aware of how far life has veered off the path that we imagined. And while life is always full of unexpected twists, the last decade feels like an unrelenting crescendo of crises. Climate disasters, political instability, wars, mass shootings, genocide—wave after relentless wave. Trump’s election in 2016 was a tipp... See more
How Do You Plan for a Future That Might Not Exist?
“Following the first time I lost my home and everything in it, I had a vivid and intense dream about a tiny sea turtle. It felt like one of those dreams that was more than just a dream, so I paid attention to it. I thought to myself that sea turtles carry their shells—their homes—with them, so I began to collect sea turtles in the form of figurines, pictures, and stuffed animals. My sea turtles gave me great comfort for a while. However, as I found out, I had taken away the wrong message from the dream. I know this because the next time I lost my home and everything I owned, I lost my collection of sea turtles.
Eventually, I learned that sea turtles’ shells are not something external they carry with them but are part of their very skeleton. They literally build their home from within themselves. The meaning of my dream had not been to embrace sea turtles as a symbol but rather to live like a sea turtle lives. The message of the dream was I needed to build home from within myself.”