embrace [and] release with daily sequences and routines (and arty pages)
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“So much of life is spent tending to ordinary things while carrying
extraordinary things we never asked for. Routine gives us somewhere to put
our feet. It...
Sunday
The developed world has a vast, under-utilized asset that is not being leveraged to its best advantage: idealistic people who want to make the world a better place. For most of a century, idealistic people have been encouraged to use anger, protest, lobbying, and legal action in order to make the world a better place. While most certainly some of these behaviors and activities were necessary, we have reached the point at which the social benefit of such behaviors is decreasing. We have reached the point at which creation, rather than attack, ought to be the first obligation of reformers. ~Michael Strong