Thank you for sharing this, Olu. I almost feel as if I have had that moment on the beach just now through your telling it, toes in sand, facing the immense sea and feeling a part of it all. I wish this capacity for anyone who has felt scared or small, constricted, coerced. To be at one with the natural world, whether it be found at beach or suburb, city or farm, is a protection for our souls against the ravages of all sorts of harms that humankind can inflict. I sometimes feel I have lived this way, a little bit outside of the world around me, and watched the world hustle and bustle and seemingly wish to tear itself apart. Yet each one of us contains the universe. How can any be Other. There is a world where we don't tear ourselves, others and the world apart. I hope we will all try to imagine it and move in that direction.
Thank you for your beautiful words and thank you for being here. I could not agree more about how we need to be more open to the vast potential we each carry within ourselves. These days it seems so many people are obsessed with dominating for the sake of it, getting ahead at any costs, sacrificing large pieces of themselves as they go.
All that being said it’s clear that inner peace will only happen for me once I am clear about the kind of
person I want to be and the kind of life I want to lead. In the end we are all trying to feel a little less lonely.
What on Substack has been helping you stay grounded?
Gardening is my most grounding activity and that is maybe sort of a pun (:
Substack can feel a bit like old school library and you notice a book and pull it from the shelf and just read for an hour about something you want to learn, answering a question that you didn’t even know you had.
And it seems to be evolving w live chats that I usually I wouldn’t have thought I would be interested in but I can see how this might allow conversations on complicated topics to develop. And just another way to gather for people who maybe don’t thrive on chitchat?
The comments are usually worth a read as well. Because how awesome to have smart compassionate yet challenging readers for smart writers.
So far seems to be attracting forward thinkers not retrograde haters which was the hope of the internet , at least to me, some decades ago and I had experienced briefly on FB initially,Quora and Medium now a mixed bag . So yay for Substack.
I really love this breakdown. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Substack.
Gardening can be such a grounding activity given that it roots you to the earth and you’re outside in the fresh air. I know several people who have found a lot of peace gardening.
I appreciate your readership, and I hope to read something from you soon :)
Thank you for sharing this, Olu. I almost feel as if I have had that moment on the beach just now through your telling it, toes in sand, facing the immense sea and feeling a part of it all. I wish this capacity for anyone who has felt scared or small, constricted, coerced. To be at one with the natural world, whether it be found at beach or suburb, city or farm, is a protection for our souls against the ravages of all sorts of harms that humankind can inflict. I sometimes feel I have lived this way, a little bit outside of the world around me, and watched the world hustle and bustle and seemingly wish to tear itself apart. Yet each one of us contains the universe. How can any be Other. There is a world where we don't tear ourselves, others and the world apart. I hope we will all try to imagine it and move in that direction.
Thank you for your beautiful words and thank you for being here. I could not agree more about how we need to be more open to the vast potential we each carry within ourselves. These days it seems so many people are obsessed with dominating for the sake of it, getting ahead at any costs, sacrificing large pieces of themselves as they go.
All that being said it’s clear that inner peace will only happen for me once I am clear about the kind of
person I want to be and the kind of life I want to lead. In the end we are all trying to feel a little less lonely.
What on Substack has been helping you stay grounded?
Gardening is my most grounding activity and that is maybe sort of a pun (:
Substack can feel a bit like old school library and you notice a book and pull it from the shelf and just read for an hour about something you want to learn, answering a question that you didn’t even know you had.
And it seems to be evolving w live chats that I usually I wouldn’t have thought I would be interested in but I can see how this might allow conversations on complicated topics to develop. And just another way to gather for people who maybe don’t thrive on chitchat?
The comments are usually worth a read as well. Because how awesome to have smart compassionate yet challenging readers for smart writers.
So far seems to be attracting forward thinkers not retrograde haters which was the hope of the internet , at least to me, some decades ago and I had experienced briefly on FB initially,Quora and Medium now a mixed bag . So yay for Substack.
Thanks for your writing.
I really love this breakdown. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Substack.
Gardening can be such a grounding activity given that it roots you to the earth and you’re outside in the fresh air. I know several people who have found a lot of peace gardening.
I appreciate your readership, and I hope to read something from you soon :)