… Read the restMy friend told me a story he hadn’t told anyone for years. When he used to tell it years ago people would laugh and say, ‘Who’d believe that? How can that be true? That’s daft.’ So he didn’t tell it again for ages.
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… Read the restGreta Thunberg tells us: “Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling. Sometimes we just simply have to find a way.”
… Read the restThe world is always ending somewhere, and another always being born.
… Read the restAfrican American Zen teacher angel Kyoto williams succinctly makes the link between climate crisis and racism when she says, “The reason we continue to degrade the earth is that we continue to degrade each other.”
… Read the restThe really funny thing, though, is that when you finally do come face to face with it, you recognize that it’s something you knew all along. It’s been right there with you the whole time. It never went away. It was never hidden.
… Read the restAt the festival, a young woman asked Dr. Gagliano how her scientific work had changed her understanding of the world.
“The main difference is that I used to live in a world of objects, and now I live in a world of subjects,” she said.
… Read the restIf I sound cynical, it’s only because I’m not a complete idiot.
The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
–Marge Piercy… Read the rest
“Swimming cultivates imagination; the man with the most is he who can swim his solitary course night or day and forget a black earth full of people that push.”
–Annette Kellermann… Read the rest
Here’s a lovely turn of phrase from a friend of Tomasz Tunguz:
… Read the restThe entire story reminded me of an old friend who often tells me, “We are lent into each other’s keeping.” Our time with each other is borrowed, its duration is unknown, and that uncertainty makes it precious.
