Alexandra Pasanen

This is exactly what the video had done for me. It’s also what this professor’s work has taught me to do since: in annoying situations, or even just mundane ones, I try to think about how I might see them in 20 years. Not all the time, of course. We can’t walk around in every shitty situation and think, well when this terrible friend is dead maybe... See more

Perhaps making and doing things is so powerful because in doing or making you break out of stasis. Even if only fleetingly, you get unstuck and, afterwards, have proof of that. Something exists because you made it. Something happened because you did it. You baked the cake and decorated it attentively and inexpertly. You showed up at the protest... See more