Ed. Note: This article may bring up difficult feelings. If you are in crisis, please get support at https://988lifeline.org/. I’ve been sitting a lot with my grief recently. I’ve been having trouble identifying the exact source of it, so I just keep gently asking myself, “where is this coming from?” It has taken years to…
I’m reading “Creative Quest” by Questlove, and I’m struck by his words on page 23: all people-who are all creative people, at least in some respect…have to learn to locate their ideas, how to execute them, how to feel about them once they’re released into the world, and how to cope with the reactions of…
Dad, Your arrest upended my life. I nearly didn’t make it past that part of my life because of how tightly I was attached to you, and how much difficulty I had adjusting to the new reality of your arrest, your crimes, and your mental health diagnosis. When I had to let go of my…
Apparently the actual quote is a little different… From “How to Winter”: Gandhi is often credited with saying “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” But this is a misleading and simplistic paraphrase of what he actually said: “We but mirror the world. The tendencies present in the outer world are to…