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In an increasingly polarized and alienating world, I take pride in my ability to find common ground with almost anyone. My friends joke that I’m psychic—that I pick up on people’s emotions and inner lives with uncanny accuracy—but I think it’s just a result of deep listening and genuine curiosity.
Ask people about themselves and really listen. Ask them follow-up questions. Find out what makes their hearts sing and what keeps them up at night. You’d be surprised how much you can relate to, even in those who seem fundamentally different from you.
The human experience is universal, and at the end of the day, we only have each other.
Ask people about themselves and really listen. Ask them follow-up questions. Find out what makes their hearts sing and what keeps them up at night. You’d be surprised how much you can relate to, even in those who seem fundamentally different from you.
The human experience is universal, and at the end of the day, we only have each other.
Feb 23, 2025
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🗺By far one of the most transformative skills I’ve learned and am learning. Too often we‘re trying persuade someone to be more like us, or we’re hiding our true feelings to fit in with someone else, but not everything in life requires compromise or consensus. Sometimes you can simply say, “Oh, you want something different? I hope you enjoy that! I’m going to do something else over here.”
You can be different, have different perspectives, make different choices, and it doesn’t mean you can’t be friends, lovers, or partners. It just means you’re individuals!
Only by finding the borders of our differences is intimacy truly possible. Then I know where I begin and you end. Then our compatibility isn’t based on sameness but the skillfulness by which we can honor each other’s unique selves.
You can be different, have different perspectives, make different choices, and it doesn’t mean you can’t be friends, lovers, or partners. It just means you’re individuals!
Only by finding the borders of our differences is intimacy truly possible. Then I know where I begin and you end. Then our compatibility isn’t based on sameness but the skillfulness by which we can honor each other’s unique selves.
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💓ephemeral. liquid, even. an infinite thread. (i know that’s three words/phrases sorry). but to me this idea is present as a unifying force in fleeting moments
i’ve always had the freedom growing up to explore religion on my own terms, and i always felt like there was some uniting force in the makeup of our souls, even if it didn’t mirror the masculinized, christian God.
i feel connected to this force whenever i learn about people in history and realize they werent much different than us in the modern day. we just had different cultural contexts.
every time the season changes.
when you’re with someone you really care about and even silence suffices.
in the same vein, making friends. like that feeling when you meet someone and connect and know you want them to be in your lives for a while. fate is God to me. as is chance encounters.
when i take walks in nature and i can hear the river and the trees and the birds calling all at once.
even when you’re in line at a store and you make brief small talk or have a connection with a stranger. especially when you get a little laugh or smile out of it.
overall, when i feel really connected with humanity and the earth as a whole. i feel like all organized and not-so-organized religion stems from the same place in our hearts and souls (despite these messages sometimes becoming warped and misused).
i’ve always had the freedom growing up to explore religion on my own terms, and i always felt like there was some uniting force in the makeup of our souls, even if it didn’t mirror the masculinized, christian God.
i feel connected to this force whenever i learn about people in history and realize they werent much different than us in the modern day. we just had different cultural contexts.
every time the season changes.
when you’re with someone you really care about and even silence suffices.
in the same vein, making friends. like that feeling when you meet someone and connect and know you want them to be in your lives for a while. fate is God to me. as is chance encounters.
when i take walks in nature and i can hear the river and the trees and the birds calling all at once.
even when you’re in line at a store and you make brief small talk or have a connection with a stranger. especially when you get a little laugh or smile out of it.
overall, when i feel really connected with humanity and the earth as a whole. i feel like all organized and not-so-organized religion stems from the same place in our hearts and souls (despite these messages sometimes becoming warped and misused).
Mar 30, 2025
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My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebody—be it a relative or one of my best friends—was to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too 💌
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