influencing to dominate your habitat.vs.inhabiting the domain of your influence.

you have to swim upstream to realize you're swimming upstream.

not everything feels like something else.

not knowing means not knowing if you're actually not-knowing.

whatever you try to smuggle into the chapter after an upheaval provides the ingredients for the next one.

now deep enough in the julia donaldson-verse that I now know that gruffalos are actually aliens from the planet grimbletosh.

start now.ok now.how about now.why not now.maybe now.can i interest you in — you guessed it — now.

i was utterly conviced this was an amusing example of a find-and-replace gaffe but i'm the dunce

RT @katherine1er: What super annuation are you with? Does anyone in Australia understand super and interested in teaching me a little about….

(pregnant + i)* = parenting.

> things that get surprised too much die.

this is rose right after cutting jack loose.

the answer is in the same zip code as why shots in the dark are deeply irresponsible and yet surprisingly productive.

mostly what goes on inside men's heads is imagining themselves magnificently escaping the jaws of death whilst rescuing beloveds - and yes you may ask why not just visualize and wish for a life without peril in the first place and yes that is a legitimate question yes.

letting things work themselves out is a surprisingly active effort.

naive is evian spelled backwards.

lol nearly edited the extraneous space but this is *chef's kiss*.

error -correction is not truth-seeking.

the description of the details is a distraction from how you moved with them.

i'm not falling short of my ideals; they're the ones that are naively overshooting reasonable expectations from human performance.