Taking my ADHD meds means that I now second guess myself 4 hours after I make my decisions instead of while I’m making them

I truly do not know how someone can’t see that politics (like it or not) affects our lives and the lives of others

it’s the inherent privilege of being comfortable and unaffected by the choices of a system and a lack of care for those who are oppressed, marginalized, and undermined by that same system

people who say they aren’t political make me nervous

grounded by the weight of how vast space is and how small we all are

overjoyed with the beauty of it all and the possibilities of hurtling through space on this marble together

finally got around to listening to Maddie Ashman’s full album and it scratches every aural itch

I am inspired by Christina and Victor and Jeremy and Reid. I love that people can see themselves in them. And I love that we get to see the best of all of us in them.

The entire crew of the Artemis II is inspiring. The intelligence. The effort and time. The joy. The poetry and the art. The humanity and the representation

There is no magic bullet to make everything better

There is a picture of what is better. And then there is try, try again

It’s possible. But we can’t wait for someone else to make it all happen. We can’t wait for the perfect time to start

We build it better and more beautiful right where we are

We become better by challenging and encouraging ourselves and others to be better, not by minimizing or tearing ourselves and others down.

Anything that becomes better by bringing people down and lessening their humanity is not actually becoming better.

The first time you take something on is probably not going to be perfect. Neither will the second be. It’s the little changes you make between the one imperfection and the next that make it better though… one step at a time

If you never speak up about it, there’s no guarantee anyone else will ever know about it

Telling people to be in their “feminine” or “masculine” is repackaged patriarchy. You get to be exactly who you are, whatever that looks like for you. That’s the point. Defining what someone else is supposed to be for them harms everyone.

Our future can’t be dependent on fossil fuels

We have to get the little moments right and consistent. Because those are the building blocks that set the foundations for any of the big things. Nothing will survive if it’s dependent entirely on grand gestures and big moves.

One of my pet peeves is people talking about things as if “it’s just the way it is”

No. Somebody made it the way it is.

And somebodies can change the way it is.

There are very few things (if any) that have to be how it is

We’re all going to leave this place behind, eventually. And there are a lot of things we can get into before we do. Mostly, I hope that I leave this place better. More together. More built up. More complete. Cause what we leave behind is ultimately about us. Not just me.

I hope that you can find the peace and confidence to be fully yourself.

But also, I hope you can find the security and the space to peel back the layers to find who you are, fully yourself.

Don’t get so caught up admiring (or dwelling on) what was that you forget to invest in what is in order to discover all the things that could be

We carry all of our pasts with us

Make the thing that moves you. If it moves you, it’ll move others too.

It’s easy to think we got it all right or that we know it all, because that’s safe. It’s harder to accept that maybe we don’t have it all together and that we may have made mistakes. But that’s where the healing and growth happen. Owning what we haven’t gotten right leads to living life better.

There are forces in this world that want you to be colder and harder and tougher.

But what we really need is more gentleness, more kindness, more caring, and more tenderness.

That’s how we fight.

Be true to who you are. Do what you’ve got to do. Trust yourself. Be confident.

And also, be ready to grow and be willing to change. This is not all of it. There is better yet to be made and done.

Dear my own mind, no, not everybody is mad at you and not everybody hates you and not everybody thinks you don’t belong. In fact, probably basically nobody feels that way. You’ve got your people. And they are for you.

I think one of my big problems with AI (along with the ethical, environmental, and economic implications) is that it is just dishonest. It lies as content. And it lies in production. It’s deceptive in that people want to use it to seem like they’ve put in the work. But they haven’t.

Can confirm the thing that I’ve been putting off for 4 months did in fact take 15 minutes to take care of

Loving someone means loving all of them. It doesn’t mean not helping them become the best version of themselves (we all have ways we can heal and grow). But it does mean we have space and accept them, and ourselves, as we are.

authenticity>>>>playing it cool

A lot of defense mechanisms will keep us safe, but they don’t necessarily make us healthy