Sylvie

You can leave the party early. Skip the Pinterest-level snacks. Let them run wild. Clean up the mess tomorrow. You are allowed to enjoy this holiday too.

They might not remember the themed treats or the hand-stitched costumes, but they’ll remember the parent who held space for their feelings. The one who didn’t force a smile for the photo. The one... See more

Good communities incubate innovation and creativity – think of the salons in France where intellectuals used to meet to discuss the latest ideas; the Olympia Academy; la Bande de Picasso. A feeling of belonging allows people to be authentic, to move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset, and to take risks knowing that they have people to... See more

Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children... See more

Neither he nor the others feel that the hunched shoulders and housing insecurity of their youth were good for their art. The “La Bohème” portrait of impoverished painters and poets was after all a description, not a prescription. “And at least they could afford the garret,” Jacobs-Jenkins says. “In New York, forget it.”

In a world fast being shaped by collapse and complexity, artists are not a luxury. They are a necessity. They don’t just interpret culture — they recreate it. They hold space for grief, birth, possibility, and spark the kinds of insights that can’t be beta-tested but must be lived.

It’s time to stop grasping for certainty by asking what is... See more

Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.