"People's accusations are not a reflection of you- they're a confession from them. Their rage is their fear. Their criticism is their secret shame. Their envy is their lack. Stop defending yourself from their projections. Stop accepting their judgments as your identity. Ignore them. Live your life as you see best."
we thought the future would be chrome and speed,
but it turns out the next era is clay.
linen.
ink.
instruments.
soil.
it's the curve of real handwriting. the creak of a leather book. the sound of someone working.
humanity is circling back to itself.
and it feels like medicine.
- Victoria Erickson
“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”
I have many things to show you, which have not come to me so easily. They've arrived in pain, being a fool many times over. These are life's weight you cannot bear just now and so I practice patience. The thought of the days I can reveal them to you linger on my mind constantly. I have lived things in this world which I shouldn't have been so negative and mistaken about, wasted energies. It is through darkness I have been able to see light and even then just barely. What little wisdom I have acquired, it is your reward if you wish to have it.
