On Presence

That’s maybe the most important thing is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just going to live in it, versus embrace it. Change it. Improve it. Make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important.

“The secret of life is to waste time in ways that you like.” -Jerry Seinfeld

The poem <n>Keeping Things Whole</n> by <n>Mark Strand</n>.

Because there's an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.

A quote by spiritual teacher <n>Ram Dass</n>.

A plan is just a thought. We treat our plans as though they are a lasso, thrown from the present around the future, in order to bring it under our command. But all a plan is—all it could ever possibly be—is a present-moment statement of intent. It’s an expression of your current thoughts about how you’d ideally like to deploy your modest influence over the future. The future, of course, is under no obligation to comply.

“When you are walking, nothing really moves: it is rather that presence is slowly established in the body. When we are walking, it isn't so much that we are drawing nearer, more that the things out there become more and more insistent in our body. The landscape is a set of tastes, colours, scents which the body absorbs.”

― Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

A quote attributed to <n>Audrey Hepburn</n> on a wooden sign in a garden.

A quote from <n>Toni Morrison</n>'s essay '<n>The Work You Do, the Person You Are</n>' for <n>The New Yorker</n>.

“Contemplate the price you pay for inaction.”

“Freedom is an earnest walk toward an unknown destination.” -Stacey D’erasmo

Every day around the world, billions of moments slip by uncaptured, lost to time. Fleeting instances of love. Flashbacks to childhood memories. Realizations of nature's beauty. While oral storytelling is older than recorded history, passed down alongside the crackle of flames, there are an astronomical number of moments that have been forgotten because they never hit the page.