just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.
~Mary Oliver :: Red Bird
It's a serious thing
just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world. ~Mary Oliver :: Red Bird
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The question isn't, "What difference does/will it make?"
The question is, "What kind of person do I want to be?" via May you harvest the light
+ keep it burning brightly in your heart, so that when the deepest darkness of winter is upon us, you will remember the summer sun. ~Teo Bishop We live in a designed world, surrounded by built systems and objects.
No object, no matter how small, is designed in a vacuum. Design is in close conversation with other complex forces like labor, the environment, our planet’s resources, technology, communities on a local + global scale, and future generations as well. All of the decisions a designer makes have an ecosystem of impact that reverberates far beyond the acts of ideation + creation. Historically, design has centered the human experience. The value of a product has come from its beauty and/or its ability to make life ‘better.’ But when we design solely with humans in mind, it is all too easy to forget that humans are not the only ones affected by what we make. Can something be truly good design if it’s bad for the planet, wildlife, local communities + workers? The truly beautiful is one + the same with the truly good. ~Kalon (image via link) |
on a journey toward zero-waste, simplicity, + compassion :: daring to choose fair one choice at a time
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