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Kirsten

Capitalism and Play

Capitalism does not encourage me to play. It encourages me to do what is useful. It wants me to engage in activities from which work and value can be extracted. Value that can be measured in monetary units. Maybe capitalism does not encourage play because from play I might gain

What if the Perfection we Seek is Right Before our Eyes

'I don't want to do this because I fear I won't do it perfectly.' That voice follows me around. It seems to follow other people too, because I have seen podcasts or books dedicated to the topic. The idea of perfection as something we

You Are

Without thoughts you still are. You might not know what you are, or how you are, but you are. There might be sensations, and usually our thoughts would have something to say about those sensations. They might go, 'Ouch that hurts!', or 'I am so tired.'

Outside your Head

Who are the ones our society calls crazy? Often it's those who move beyond what is deemed reasonable or rational. It's those who venture into a space where the mind cannot keep up. Isn't it crazy to try and hang onto a dot in

Stuck in our Abstractions

Our minds can seem more or less real depending on how much attention we give them.

Fast-growing

Companies will state this term in their job advertisements as if this is a place where you might want to be - the isle of 'fast-growing'. Would you like to go? Not me. I don't want to work for a fast-growing company. I distrust a bunch

Writing in Anger

Sometimes I need to take my anger along and write. It's the only way I won't lie. Being human I am mostly writing in the sauce of my emotions. Why does writing a post while being angry feel like a bigger deal than doing the same

Stories of our Lives

Do you fancy yourself a storyteller?

Reality

Reality is a word so you decide how to use it. For me, reality will always refer to what we cannot fully grasp as humans. It refers to a space we find our definitions in, not a space we define. This does not render our definitions useless, it just makes

More (emptiness)

We don't really need more things. We need each other (more). When working is a means only, to buy something that someone made by working hard, so as to be able to buy something that someone invented working really hard, so they could buy something that someone marketed