There are BPAs in our sports bras and seed oils in our bread so you might as well walk barefoot into the public shower, take a drag and kiss the sky.
Dogs show us that comfort and wildness can coexist in love. Why settle for one or the other?
Step outside into 40 degrees in shorts and a t-shirt. Stand very still. Let the air strike you back into your body, back into the present moment—those places you’re always trying to escape.
Wealth and status are moving targets. Watch as gilded hands move the goalposts inch by inch, draining your innocence in their pursuit.
Stanley cup or mason jar, it all goes down the same.
You won’t always need an app to remind you to relax your jaw and exhale slowly, just a clear mind in a desperate moment. (But an app might help in the meantime)
The most underrated pleasure is a book you can read in one sitting, preferably a work of fiction. How masterful, to create whole worlds with such brevity. To gift a reader a day they’ll always remember.
Whoever coined the whole “make moves in silence” thing sure didn’t account for the possessed loudmouths who make society scratch its head at their pivots and rebrands and plot twists. Make moves however you like! You’ll find your dance partners out on the vast checkerboard floor of self-discovery.
Some people were born with silver spoons. Others were born with shovels. Watch who tends the garden. Watch who eats. See who becomes fullest.
Real growth isn’t all numbers. Real growth is watching your soul, in all its mosaic, unquantifiable glory, fill the gaps of everything you touch.
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Waiting for the Stanley Jar to drop any day now.
This was lovely. I picked up The Borrowers, a book I remember reading a dozen times as a child, but especially the first time when I sat on the floor between the stacks at the public library. It has been such a pleasure to read it again this week!
Also the rebranding and pivoting in public. 😅 So fun to observe how we’re trying to survive in a system designed for us to experience failure and redemption. The hero’s journey? A tale as old as time? It’s all happening and it’s happening to us! It’s so stinking rad.