Tangled in Text

“When you show people a picture of a circle with a small wedge cut out of it, their eyes first go to the missing piece every time. It is easy among the doctors, the needles, and the tubes to lose sight of the beauty that was. Despite our pain, our fear, and our very real loses, we would do well to think about our many past blessing with our loved one who is now diminished. There is so much more to who we were and who we are than just the missing piece.”
― Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

“It was freeing in a way, to have a family built on love by choice and not relational obligation.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

“Time has taken on a life of it’s own. It started to reign over us like a pseudo-god to be bowed down to. Time is what makes us tick. Our desire to control time, to gain perfect precision, has changed us in more ways than we recognize. Our lives are being formed every day into a more mechanized, robotic, and calculated existence. We are becoming our clocks. We don’t eat or sleep when we are hungry or tired anymore–we eat when it’s time to eat. Sleep when it’s time to sleep. So, are we masters of time? Or slaves?”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle

“Electricity and the lightbulb we invented without bullet journals. New modes of transportation like the locomotive train…were created without New Year’s resolutions. It makes me feel bad for Alexander Hamilton or Mozart–if only they would’ve known about goal setting.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle