I am the person my twenty year old self complained about years old.
Statuses
Highlighted (app store link) is an app I love and have used for years now and realized I don’t mention how much I love it frequently enough. Especially for non-fiction books. Allows me to photograph, select, save and make notes for any printed text.
Shelter or prison – annie’s blog
The individuals within a system may change and grow and need the system to change and grow with them. But systems resist change. The individuals in a system are often not served by the system, but they’re serving it. They’re trapped within it. Does it shelter them? Does it provide some resources? Does it, perhaps, even keep them alive? Sure. So does a prison.
I actually had a dream last night about this very idea and then awoke to read this.
A sign, perhaps?
Rebecca Toh has some new projects in the works. Both ideas sound exciting.
There is so much we don’t know about everything!
Indeed! What a wonder it would be to spend a life determined to find out more.
Last night (and, frankly, most nights):
Tonight: Pumpkin Gnocchi with Sage Butter Sauce.
Many are familiar with Hanlon’s razor:
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
I’m ready to make the argument that the converse of this is true as well.
What I think we need is more humanity. More sharing of our stories and life experiences. It’s how we come to appreciate people we don’t know and that may not look like or live like us. It’s easy to be baited into hatred of the faceless other, but a human being with a story we can relate to and empathize with? Much harder.
This other path points to our higher human potential to learn with humility about the things we don’t understand, and to hold wide-open space for the possibility that other people are not monsters, they are just different.
These are important.