Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ↓
Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ↓
The space between no longer and not yet is what defines the pivot periods of our lives. This is the time when we have nothing left to hold onto but also nowhere clearly to land.
“There is a sweet spot between the known and the unknown where originality happens; the key is to be able to linger there without panicking.”
between stimulus and response there is a space
Facing the void feels so overwhelming because it is the birthplace of limitless possibility. It is the place of potential new life, and the repository of the old.
What do I mean by ‘betweenness'? Think about the nature of music. Music does not exist in one particular note – which is in itself meaningless; or in a lot of such single notes, each in itself meaningless. I am tempted to say it exists more in the spaces than in the notes: the spaces between successive notes in pitch that creates the melody, the
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