"To truly come home to yourself,
to earn your own trust and respect,
you have to unseat the authoritarian-tyrant from the throne of your consciousness.
You cannot do this by force;
that only perpetuates the cycle of cruelty.
Instead you must cultivate, courageously, a concerted counter-insurgency of kindness, curiosity, and humor.
Liberate your inner artist, journalist and comedian.
Break them out of the prison of your fears.
Then, together, perform the most daring of heists:
to retrieve the Jewel of Life,
locked up deep within the tyrant's palace."

-- Visakan Veerasamy

I’m always collaborating. Simone Weil says, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” That’s my mantra to myself: Pay attention to people, what they care about, their worlds, their words, their aesthetics, their life. I look at Simone Weil and say, “Why don’t we edit that?” What if we were so ambitious—to change the word “rarest” to “most common?” What would we then say? “Attention is the most common and purest form of generosity.” That’s what I’m working toward.