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well-arranged words rearrange reality.
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: being and longing, the Longing of our being and the Being of our longing. Belonging is deep; only in a superficial sense does it refer to our external attachment to people, places and things.
John O'Donohue • Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong
“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 moreShe may agree with the poet Mary Oliver that “creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration. . . . It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching,” or with Gertrude Stein, who warned, “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
Julie Phillips • The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.
Anil Dash • The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
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
This goal will be achieved if everyday practices, "ways of operating" or doing things, no longer appear as merely the obscure background of social activities, and if a body of theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives, by penetrating this obsurdity, make it possible to articulate them. --- Michel de Certeau, the Practice of Every
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