Christina Ducruet
@stina
Long time internet nerd; seamstress of people and ideas; designing experiences for soulful self-discovery
Christina Ducruet
labyrxnth.com
It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My... See more
Mary Oliver
Everyone "knows" that as AI gets better, humans become less valuable. Except three economists just proved the exact opposite using math from 1973 and Steve Jobs.
And it explains something that's been driving researchers crazy...
Why did computers make inequality WORSE but ChatGPT is making... See more
That means undergoing initiations at various thresholds in our lives where we are forced to dismantle the persona we’ve worked so hard to construct—to look in the shadows lurking behind our bright performances to see what is pulling our strings so we can reclaim that energy for new endeavours.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
So we are on the topic of horizons and thresholds, limits and walls, and their appropriately hidden transversals (vertere, from the root *wer-, “to turn, bend”). From this place, we understand liminality to be that initiatory threshold where the limits of our knowing meets the horizon of our being.
Jeremy D Johnson • "Three Theses on Liminality"
Who doesn’t want to share time with people who help us become who we aspire to be?
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Our individuality is entwined with our connectedness; so the work of healing and growth happens both alone and in relation to others.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
After all, what is a person other than a whole history of associations, loves, memories, attachments, and affinities? Who are we, other than all the others who have made us who we are, and to whom we belong as much as they to us? We are those others.