I’m just going to say it. Childhood has been lost. To video games, to sports leagues, to after-school programs, to day care, to mobile devices, to peer pressure, to Netflix, to “gifted” classes, to extracurricular activities, to homework,
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“Likewise, the passive tasks—Facebook, email, television, etc.—are easy. And they are fine in small doses (I’ll likely check my email for thirty minutes today or tomorrow, and I’ll certainly spend a few minutes on Twitter). But there’s no grand reward for passivity, just pain and regret and an emptiness that’s hard to articulate. Later”
― Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
― Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
“And this friend and I talked and talked, in the tepee in the backyard and on the porch in the front yard, and with every time I told the story about how I’d grown up and how it had sometimes hurt, with every time we went for just one more smoke and one more conversation, I felt myself coming back to myself, ever closer to the person I had always wanted to be.”
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“We are not separate from this Earth; we are a part of it, whether we fully feel it in our bodies yet or not.”
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
“What I'm trying to tell you is this: cat people-ness is contagious. If you're not careful, they can turn you out as one of them.”
― Animal Attraction
― Animal Attraction
“We can possess all the fine goods that our civilisation has to offer us; we can have important jobs, and social status, and tone our bodies on all the latest machines – but without a sense of belonging to the world, we feel empty and our lives lack meaning.”
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
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