Just your every four years reminder that now is not the time to run off and panic-found a new organization. I promise that whatever need you are now seeing for the first time, the need is not new and somebody has already been working on it. And if you can't figure out who's already working on it, you're probably not in the position to be working on it yourself. You don't have to found the trans underground railroad and if you're not already connected to the people doing that work then it shouldn't be you trying to found the trans underground railroad.

“After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.”

For two years I worked as an island clearer.  You know those small, fancy, artificial islands off the coast of the Dubai?  Well, every once in a while someone rich would order a customized island in the shape of their choosing.  Maybe it’s a rose for their wife or a face or a turtle.  So the other guys go in with their sand, make the island to the shape required, and then the client is called and told that their custom island is completed.  But sometimes the client says they don’t want the island any more.  That’s where I came in.  Our company was never mad - I mean, in this high-profile island generating industry, you have to be customer-centric.  Just because someone doesn’t want a custom island now doesn’t mean they don’t want one later.

my insta grid is so delightfully southeast at the moment, i need to go back and post a bunch of north slope stuff but it literally looks like a “summer in southeast” moodboard for now