Sierra Martinez
@sierra
Sierra Martinez
@sierra
... See more“While grief may look like an expression of pain that serves no purpose, it is actually the soul’s acknowledgment of what we value. Grief is the honour we pay to that which is dear to us. And it is only through the connection to what we cherish that we can know how to move forward. In this way, grief is motion.”
– Toko-pa Turner “Belonging:
There are so many more people we haven’t met yet, ideas we’ve never imagined, philosophical framings that we have yet to stumble upon. Part of our lifework is to find them. Not only through carefully planned research projects, but also by way of random discoveries—those moments we didn’t see coming, and didn’t know we were looking for.
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I
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