“Grief is like the ocean. It comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” ~Vicki Harrison
How to move forward after loss - 3 phases of healing https://t.co/oQ9xDdORWr
AI is overwhelming the power grid. It's stealing the creative labor of writers, journalists & artists to put them out of work. It's made teaching a nightmare. It's degraded the internet into a mess of machine-generated slop. It has to go.
"When someone spews something really hurtful don’t pick it up and hold it and rub it into your heart and snuggle with it and carry it around for a long time. Don’t even put energy into kicking it to the curb. You got to see it and step over it or go around it and keep on going.”
A phrase that inspires an inner giddy dance of joy for every reader: "the book you requested is available at the library hold shelf" Happy #NationalLibraryWeek!
"I forgive you. Not for you, but for me. I forgive you because hate is just another way of holding on, and you don't belong here anymore.” ~Beau Taplin
"You are not your feelings. You just experience them. Anger, sadness, hate, depression, fear. This is the rain you walk in. But you don’t become the rain. You know the rain will pass. You walk on. And you remember the soft glow of the sun that will come again.” ~Matt Haig
I worry that the reason many kids don’t acquire a lifelong love of reading is because it’s often presented as work, as paragraphs to be dissected, rather than what it really is—the gateway to pleasure, the most enjoyable and rewarding thing they will ever do.
I have often wondered what social media would be like if it could just be a place where we shared our interests, our delights, our joys, our thoughts, the beauty of our corners of the world & found only connection, not cynicism or criticism? If it became a community of wonder.