Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Becka said that spelling was not reading. ‘Reading,’ she said, ‘was when you could hear the words as if they were a song.’ — Margaret Atwood “The Testaments” 050
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 15/05/2025That tension between dreaming of a past and knowing you’d have been excluded from it... Talley names it so clearly. And still, he made space for so many sparks after him. 020
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Only someone who leaves the labyrinth can be happy, but only a happy person will be able to escape it. — Michael Ende “The Mirror in the Mirror – A Labyrinth” 050
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The character 創 in sōzō of course means “beginning” or “origin,” but the fact that the beginning of something is also a wound (創)— I find that deeply meaningful. — Hiroshi Yoshino “Shi no Susume: Shi to Kotoba no Tsūro” (The Way of Poetry: A Passage Through Words) 020
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 05/05/2025It is not widely known that the first character in sōzō (創造, meaning “creation”) is also used to mean “wound” (創) in Japanese. (There is even a common wound treatment called bansōkō (絆創膏, meaning “adhesive bandage”), which uses the same character.) 120
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Man cannot live without bread. But we should not live on bread alone. We should seek not only bread, but roses as well. Life must be adorned with roses. — Koichiro Kokubun The Ethics of Leisure and Boredom (unofficial translation) 031
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 20/04/2025You want to give the world some sort of spark that is not there. — Diana Vreeland, from The Gospel According to André (2017) 151
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 18/04/20253/3 The test is how far you can stand without anything to lean on. Thinking always proceeds in a zigzag manner. — Kiyokazu Washida 030
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 18/04/20252/3 This requires the toughness to think things through without being rushed or carried away by smooth words, and to patiently explore the paths to be taken. 140
Drop by Drop @dropbydrop.bsky.social · 18/04/20251/3 This is how philosophers should salute each other: “Take your time.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein To change the way we live and the way we see the world, we need to rewrite the default settings of our thinking that we have acquired up to now. 160
