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Go To Work

The Peace of Wild Things - Wendell Berry

Turn Away From Productivity : Laurie Doctor

Spider Charts / Spider Diagrams

"There are seasons in your life in the same way there are seasons in nature."

"It's in the specific that we find the totality and nowhere else."

"The fact that we can't manage is actually the great blessing of being alive..."

How do you mother yourself?

"...when we no longer know what to do..."

"The winds of our age howl and swirl and rattle the windows of our souls..."

"To ask for visible and invisible help..."

"The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest..."

"Maitri means that we can still be crazy after all these years."

Surface Tension Photo Series

Surface Tension Photo Series

Vulnerability, by David Whyte

"Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

"These mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them..."

"We are living in impossible times..."

"When you express gentleness and precision..."

"When you express gentleness and precision..."

"Without this world, there would be no journey..."

"We are here essentially to risk ourselves in the world..."

6,000 Year-Old Baobab by Beth Moon

6,000 Year-Old Baobab by Beth Moon

"Remember, you are not alone, and you do not need to finish the work."

Courage doesn't always roar...

"Winter is the time to plant seeds that will grow, *as if* they will bloom."

Book Review: Amateur Hour (Working Motherhood)

"There is only one question: how to love this world..."

Austin Kleon on Not Living in Public

Laurie Anderson Asked Me To Do It

Political Art About Baby Trump

Political Art About Baby Trump