Today is Father's Day. And today I'm grateful for being a parent because it plugs me into a community and forces me to think about what it means to raise tiny humans in this world. I need to know that my kids can connect to other people, because that is geuinely all that we have.
Mandy Brown says it best, as she often does.
Only by talking to each other can we enter that genuinely creative and generative space—not in the machine sense of sloppily recapitulating what’s come before, but in the profoundly human sense of sparking something new into existence—a space that only ever occurs in the encounters between people, in relationship to other humans and the more-than-human world. Only by talking to other people can we recall that we are humans, with human needs, one of which is not to be programmed like machines
It's worthwhile for us all to look around, find relationships and create a more-than-human world.