if given a chance to go awkwardly forward

will you choose to take it?

I’m never going to grow up.

Or give up for that matter.

Opportunities are everywhere it seems.

Sunny days are opportunities to play. Rain is an opportunity to be cozy.

There’s a whole lot of a lot around.

The only things scarce these days are time and attention.

(thank you for yours)

Asking for help, asking people to show up to your party?

That seems like asking a lot.

We’re more fragmented, distracted and removed from each other.

In The Dawn of Everything, a new history of Humanity, authors Graeber and Wengrow argue that we’re less free and less connected the more fragmented, specific and focused on difference we become.

The efforts of the postmodernists - where great narratives and things that bring us together are disappearing in favour of a more niched existence, hasn’t made the world smaller. It hasn’t increased either our connection and joy.

Instead, the more fragmented and difference focused we’ve become in our tastes, policies and lives, the more parochial we’ve become as well. Small…