It's Not That Deep

“ This is real. Your eyes reading this text, your hands, your breath, the time of day, the place where you are reading this—these things are real. I’m real too. I am not an avatar, a set of preferences, or some smooth cognitive force; I’m lumpy and porous, I’m an animal, I hurt sometimes, and I’m different one day to the next. I hear, I see, I smell things in a world where others also hear, see, and smell me. And it takes a break to remember that: a break to do nothing, to just listen, to remember in the deepest sense what, when, and where we are. ” —Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy It’s January. Which means you’ve survived another year. It’s also 2020, which means you’ve survived another decade. We’ve survived another year, another decade, another day on this incredibly stressful planet known as Earth where being a person can be an absolute nightmare. Let’s celebrate that! January—at least the first week or so—also means it’s a time for everyone