Think about the impact of a hand written letter, a song made for somebody, or an unexpected surprise.

In all of these, the maker is focused on a single person until it’s been delivered.

Love and attention are the same.

After the pandemic, what is most in need of recovery is culture. Cultural events such as theater, dance and even football have a ritual character. The only way in which we can revitalize community is through ritual forms. Today, culture is held together solely by instrumental and economic relations. But that does not found communities — it isolates people. Art, in particular, should play a central role in the revitalization of rituals.

I asked someone what their love language was today and without hesitation they said ‘everything.’

my practice is continually saying ‘I dont know’ in different shapes and forms and modalities

creativity as a return to home

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.”
– Henri Matisse

The bottom line is this: You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. In some way, your aspirations and concern for a single man in fact do begin to change the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks or people look at reality, then you can change it.

Concepts are centers of vibrations, each in itself and every one in relation to all the others. This is why they all resonate rather than cohere or correspond with each other. There is no reason why concepts should cohere. As fragmentary totalities, concepts are not even the pieces of a puzzle, for their irregular contours do not correspond to each other. They do form a wall, but it is a dry-stone wall, and everything holds together only along diverging lines. (Deleuze & Guattari)

we are no longer in the age of gaining information, we are in the age of connecting knowledge.