Let's talk about how to teach or learn history....
[History books often focus on who, what, when, where, leaving out the why, which is the most interesting part.]
[Understand the whys of yesterday so that the motives of tomorrow make more sense.]
[Listening to everything there is to hear includes the sounds of daily life as well as your own thoughts.]
[Bird watching is the opposite of looking up something online because you cannot request anything: the best you can do is be silent and use your senses to understand where things are happening.]
[Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for everything else.]
…mind, body, spirit? How can we balance our time more to avoid over-emphasizing the mind?
[Faux-public spaces are scripted environments in which you consume the space.]
[The capitalist mindset wants every waking moment to be monetizable via employment or evaluatable via social media metrics, which makes it expensive to spend time on nothing as it provides no return on investment.]
[Noticing how some ravens live half-in and half-out the rose garden, I realize that there is no 'rose garden' to them.]
[We are not avatars, brands, or a set of preferences. We're inconsistent, lumpy, different each day, and we sense things in a world where others sense us.]
[Reimagine FOMO as NO(S)MO: Necessity of (sometimes) missing out.]
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.
The Death Instinct: separation, individuality, Avant-Garde par excellence; to follow one's own path—do your own thing; dynamic change.
The Life Instinct: unification; the eternal return; the perpetuation and MAINTENANCE of the species; survival systems and operations, equilibrium.