everything is a conversation

To be human is to be “a history-making creature who can neither repeat the past nor leave it behind,” noted W. H. Auden in a brief biographical sketch of D. H. Lawrence. In Kierkegaard’s most famous words: “Life must be lived forwards, but it can be understood only backwards.” And as Mark Twain put it in his inimitable style, “Although the past may

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"When you hit the wrong note, it's the next note that makes it good or bad."—Miles Davis

You don’t have community because you aren’t a good community member. You don’t host events, you don’t know how to cook, you don’t know how to dance, you don’t know how to sing, and you aren’t doing anything to learn. You can’t tell stories or jokes.

Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any of that guidance, how pertinent any of that wisdom, in the end you di... See more

I have a working theory that the anxiety I feel is actually a massive amount of positive energy. It just feels uncomfortable because I haven’t learned how to channel that much energy yet. When I’ve been able to let it flow freely, my whole body fills with bliss.

“You can do it like it’s a great weight on you, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.” —Ram Dass

Caught in a contradiction, playing both despot and revolutionary, artist and critic, “straight man” and clown, the manifesto writer must persevere. The secret to this perseverance is drama. The theater of the absurd. You build a little self-contained world and invite the audience in. Describe this world in detail. Don’t be afraid to make it enterta

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Have you considered that your chronic tensions may not actually be trauma stuck in your body but a sign that you gotta stretch and flex more