Lauren Crichton
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Lauren Crichton
"The best ideas happen when you bang things together." — Russell Davies, On Interesting
Everything is falling apart, but also, new things are possible. And Octavia said that “[t]here’s nothing new / under the sun, / but there are new suns.” We are in a time of new suns. We’re in a time of new suns. We have no idea what we could be, but everything that we have been is falling apart. So it’s time to change. And we can be mindful about t... See more
adrienne maree brown • adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
What I did not account for was how my expectations would scale alongside my experience. As I got better at writing weekly pieces, I began to demand more of myself. I did not want to write as good a piece as I had written the week or month before but a considerably better one. In the quest to do that, I expanded the scope of my work. I found new res
... See moreBy Eileen Myles
I am always hungry
& wanting to have
sex. This is a fact.
If you get right
down to it the new
unprocessed peanut
butter is no damn
good & you should
buy it in a jar as
always in the
largest supermarket
you know. And
I am an enemy
of change, as
you know. All
the things I
embrace as new
are in
fact old things,
re-released: swimming,
t
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“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way …: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly.”
“And I don’t tire of it; I don’t tire at all, not one bit, of the feeling of excitement bubbling up in me with a new affinity for new works that spark new connections, new roads. My brain holds the map of my affinities, but I never know where it will take me.” — Alicia Kennedy
