Insightful
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
Kening Zhu • your art, ecosystem, and alchemy — kening zhu

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
“I think I have given up on having one character arc or being able to make sense of it all as a unity. I'm trying to get lost in whatever work presents itself on a given day, and if it doesn't add up to anything coherent, that's fine.”
-Sasha Chapin
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
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To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying, and they comprehend what we say, it’s because
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There is a whole lot of goodness out there when the right systems are in place.