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I love the sparrows with quotes.
It's such a clever strategy to highlight the important message within a long essay and helps me pay attention to what is being said.
Although they may seem initially accommodating and convenient to their users, universally popular social media sites — like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest — are private companies that prioritize advertising above their users’ needs. Their users’ happiness is not the primary focus, so it’s perfectly normal for you to feel anxiety when using or even thinking about social media.
I forget that they are multi-billionaire corporations and not something that is just granted to us.
Artists excel at creating worlds.
They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work,
for others.
Thank you for putting this so beautifully.
Website as a room:
In an age of information overload, a room is comforting because it’s finite, often with a specific intended purpose.
Website as a shelf:
Plus, lighter things are easy to change out. Is a book or trinket “so last year?” Move it off the shelf! Consider what surprising juxtapositions you can make on your little shelf.
Website as a plant:
"Plants can't be rushed."
Website as a garden:
"Gardens have their own ways each season. In the winter, not much might happen, and that’s perfectly fine. You might spend the less active months journaling in your notebook: less output, more stirring around on input. You need both. Plants remind us that life is about balance."
Website as a puddle:
"There is also no state of “completeness” to a website, like a puddle, since they’re ephemeral by nature. Sometimes they can be very big and reflective."
Website as a thrown rock:
"You can throw as many websites as you want into the ocean."
“Metaphor unites reason and imagination,” says George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their book, Metaphors We Live By (1980).
“Metaphors are not merely things to be seen beyond. In fact, one can see beyond them only by using other metaphors.
It is as though the ability to comprehend experience through metaphor were a sense, like seeing or touching or hearing, with metaphors providing the only ways to perceive and experience much of the world.
Metaphor is as much a part of our functioning as our sense of touch, and as precious.”