Solarev
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Solarev
- In Homegoing, One of Gyasi’s wisdom spoke to me: "If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?” It’s about choices in life, the feeling of regret, but also about the sense of clarity. It speaks on moment of doing. How do you know if you feel a sense of clarity when doing? It draws again on paying atten... See more
... See moreNo one can love you enough. Build a shelter for the flies and the wasps instead. Make houses for the rats and the owls and the bluebirds. Sit for hours in the shade and watch how these tiny citizens move, floating or drifting or scrabbling over stones, swooping or creeping in rings of shadow, rings of light. Make space inside your liquid heart for
Ahn and Chi have made their name in the Vancouver dine-out scene. They are doing two things fundementally right: storytelling and community building. https://anhandchi.com/
They define the name of the restaurant as:
Anh and Chi
[/ aĭŋ / ænd / tʃi/]: noun / conjunction / noun
1. Elder brother and elder sister of the same family;
2. respectful
... See more“It's a perspective that calls for reconciliation that begins within, acknowledging the other that resides in each of us, which, if not addressed, perpetuates the external and internal patterns that re-produce conflict.” (https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/issue/view/526) How can we address the other that resides in each of us? The other perspective
... See morePhilosopher Moses Maimonides said, “Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible, not only the necessity of the probable” (Abramsky, 2011).
- — Grandma, how to do deal with pain? — With your hands, honey. If you do it with your mind in place to relieve the pain, it becomes even harder. — With our hands grandma? — Yes. Our hands are the antennae of our soul. If you move them by weaving, cooking, painting, playing, or sinking them into the ground, you send signals of care to the d... See more
I do not owe my opponents my affection, warmth or regard. But I do owe myself a chance to live in this world without the burden of hate. “I shall permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” Said Booker T. Washington. It reminds me of a line from Toni Morrison’s novel Love: “Hate does that
... See more“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do - we do it all the time. -- Alice Munro, Dear Life