“The implication is that to exist within a community or to practice a craft out of passion and joy is not success. To many, maybe, that is true. But how limited is our potential, our community, our creativity when success is defined like that?” Does anyone remember that this week started out with an extra […]
When we reach for our limits, what is it that we ultimately grasp?
We live in a culture built on ignoring limits—of land, of bodies, of attention—and these stories kept returning me to that truth.
“How a reclusive woman’s past in suburban D.C. sparked a true-crime sensation in Brazil—and a national reckoning over the status of household servants.”
“To this day, I’ve never stopped thinking about that music sanctuary for the twenty years it existed at that location.”
“The majority of home water use takes place in the bathroom, so that’s where I started. I scaled back my showers to once a week and only flushed the toilet when the need was overwhelming. I wandered my dark little apartment doing calculations on a loop. How many gallons of water does the Livingston faucet […]
I know the obstacles are out there, and that there will always be a moment where creativity meets friction and grinds to a halt.
“For leopards to survive, we must learn to live with them.”
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