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Donella Meadows’ definition of systems: a set of **interrelated** elements **organized** to serve a particular function or to seek a particular goal.

“You can’t force a plant to bloom. It has a cycle. You have to tend it and care for it and wait for the bloom to happen. If you don’t take care of it, it dies. The more experiences you have like this, the more you begin to understand your own cycles.“ — Ruth Asawa

"men and women develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality but as a reality in the process of transformation." — from Pedagogy of the Oppressed

i am in the process of curing a chronic inflammation in my ankle. I am developing a relationship to understand my ankle and my body further.

A thought came up in the pool: if the condition became chronic because what I did on the every day basis, I should have the opportunity to act different every day from now paying more attention to my body and

Instead of decolonising museums, the new practices echo and reinforce a racial discourse. They present an idea of culture as fixed and immutable – something people own by virtue of biological ancestry. This racial view of the world should trouble us.

https://aeon.co/ideas/does-one-ethnic-group-own-its-cultural-artefacts

April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land

“memory and desire, stirring“ hit the sentiments of the presence.