"Evolution requires that hybrid organisms prove their value early. If it takes generations of adaptations to improve a system, a feature will wither before it takes off."

"Artifacts are unlike oceans and deserts in that they evolved to support human experience. They help to preserve the collective practical knowledge of a group. A major function of artifacts, then, is to serve as a repository of knowledge."

“We should therefore have to say how we inhabit our vital space, in accord with all the dialectics of life, how we take root, day after day, in a ‘corner of the world.’ For our house is our corner of the world. As has often been said, it is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word."

-Gaston Bachelard, <i>The Poetics of Space</i> (1958)

Space is the relationship between bodies, and without it there can be neither energy nor motion.

"When she says 'virtual time' or 'virtual space,' translate 'virtual' into independent or autonomous. So music projects a virtual time, its own time, and each piece of music creates a separate autonomous time pattern of its own."

What comes out next when you say to yourself, “I can see a future where…”?

What might you need to be intentional about not doing in order to "take it one day at a time"?

If there was another version of this moment where you were imagining, what could you see yourself imagining about?

When you were little, what were Saturday afternoons like?

What feels difficult to be around these days?