“The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but you didn’t think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you’re a little bit less alone in the world. You’re part of this cosmic community of people who’ve thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldLittlesBookHappensBitsCommunityLittle BitCosmic Author:Tommy Wallach
“My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.” WorldTwoSchoolBitsCommunityBandGirlfriendBalletMy GirlfriendSaxophoneNerdyTwo SistersMarching Band Author:Jennifer Garner
“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLittlesRealCharacterStoriesWisdomDreamRealityRunningBitsCommunitySpaceHistoryImagineGenerationsHuman NatureLittle BitIllusionTheaterIndividualityVersionsIdeologyGeographyFunny ThingsMaking Up Author:Bruce Springsteen
“It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.” PeopleMayHomeEarthBitsWomenCommunitySpaceSubjectsDestructionAccidentsMeaningfulResistanceFragileShedConstructsViolation Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
“There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.” PeopleWorldFeelsBitsCommunityTinyIsolatedFeedingLoving You Author:Anne Lamott
“What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.” RealFoundBitsCommunityInvolvedLocalsReal Politics Author:Tom Hodgkinson