Against the odds, beautiful trees and flowers can flourish in the desert. Life finds a way, even in the harshest circumstances. So can you.
Category: thoughts
Protection
To be able to do all we can to help those we love through this world is perhaps life’s greatest gift.
There will always be joy
There will always be setbacks. There will always be reasons for tears. There will always be joy.
The El-P ethos
El-P (of Run the Jewels and Company Flow fame) makes the impossible feat of sustaining creativity through constant reinvention seem easy. His podcast series with Open Mike Eagle goes deep on his work and the fiercely independent ethos that guides it.
The world doesn’t know you’re there
The world’s attention is not on you. And that is no bad thing. You have the space, the time and the freedom to focus on being and doing better. If you went by just his Twitter feed, you could be forgiven for thinking that Ed Latimore is a gent of few words. But those few […]
What you are about to become
What lies around the corner for you? You can only know what you are going through now, and what you have struggled through before. You can never know what you are about to become.
Stillness
How do you react to stillness? What lessons will you take from the stillness forced by the pandemic?
Equality is fragile
We can never take equality for granted. Any progress towards equality is always at risk of being reversed. Prejudice will always find new forms.
Many lifetimes, days and confused
Life will never remain just one thing. You don’t have have to remain just one thing. This is one of life’s greatest gifts to each of us.
The miracle of Bill & Ted
What is the secret of the infectious sweetness of Bill & Ted? How can you stop good ideas turning from sweet to sour? Bill, Ted (and one of their creators, Ed Solomon) might just be able to help us answer these questions.
