Homeownership is a lifelong commitment to discovering what it takes to modernize a legacy system and the lengths to which and compromises you will make in doing so.

Dan Hon

“When I was 7 I threw a ring I loved out of a car window as we searched for my dog who had run away, as an act of sacrifice to get her back. Well, guess what? She came back. And I’m still doing little spells to this day.”

Casting Little Spells.

Watch: Little Joys (2 minutes)

The individual preference for solitude, scaled up across society and exercised repeatedly over time, is rewiring America’s civic and psychic identity. And the consequences are far-reaching—for our happiness, our communities, our politics, and even our understanding of reality.

From The Anti-Social Century. Emphasis mine.

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.

Always Go To The Funeral /via SwissMiss

the best defense, the most meaningful work, the best preparation you can do at the level of an individual life is to boost your local resilience. To become a person of place. To connect with the people and land where you live. This is what we’re built to do.

How I became ‘collapse aware’. This is not a depressing read (or listen, the author read option was great)! /via Dense Discovery

• An illustrated guide to science-backed mood boosters.
• A zine about reclaiming your life from digital technology.
• A tool for searching independent websites.
• A collection of the “best” marketing headlines on the internet.
• Over the Garden Wall’s 10th anniversary stop motion short.
• Max Vogel Gonzalez’s illustrations.
• An experiment with giving out potatoes to trick or treaters.
• A concept to break procrastination.
• Some objects I covet: Nike C1TY “Surplus” shoes, El Oso Bear Tee, the Kobo Clara Colour, and the book Assembling Tomorrow.

Every place I’m from is gone because it’s not just a place, it’s a place at a certain time. It would take a time machine to go back.

— Should I move back to France? - Mike Monteiro

No joke, loveless grilled cheese sandwiches suck.

Little Nuggets of Pride

“It’s the fact that you recognized the thing that is important, not the thing itself. It’s your radar.”