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 ↓
We make so many of our decisions from the removed viewpoint of a “life well lived” — i.e. devoting ourselves to a career that will pay off at the point of retirement (what’s that?), or perhaps struggling through a damaged relationship because eventually it will work out — instead of making decisions that enable us to live well day-to-day.
(Annie
... See moredecisions vs choices: what's the diff?
rough draft for an essay section
day 2 asks one question, over & over, in silence:
did this thing actually make someone’s life easier to live?
if the answer keeps being “yes,” you don’t need to scream.
if the answer keeps being “no,” you can ship a hundred more features & it won’t matter.
... See moreA myth is a patch of soil where we can plant the best practices of a community: how to relate to each other and to our shared ecosystem. The type of mythmaking we are called to do now is probably somewhere closer to composting. We live in a culture that is remarkably good at abstracting itself from waste and off-loading it onto the marginalized
the world needs more storytellers
Sophie Strand
I became an archaeologist of my soul. It’s hard manual labour. It commands you to be gentle in your excavation. It asks you to investigate with curiosity and remain hopeful when it seems like all you’re digging up is more fucking dirt. There is so much power in that dirt though. Shifting it out of the way, clearing that space; eventually, it
... See moreThe existence of a word like respair adds to our multilayered understanding of what hope looks like in the first place. If hope is something that we can return to anew, and rediscover after periods of despair, then hope is grittier and more robust than we give it credit for. In other words, we can trust it. We can trust that our hope is bigger than
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