Molly Simpson

“There is such urgency in the multitude of crises we face, it can make it hard to remember that in fact it is urgency thinking (urgent constant unsustainable growth) that got us to this point, and that our potential success lies in doing deep, slow, intentional work.” - adrienne maree brown

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

A 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

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

An essay is not a vehicle of knowledge transmission; it is a landscape to think in, and a path to get there.

On shortcuts and longcuts

The 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