Letting go of doing something remarkable

Reminders from Readwise

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

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Truly doing justice to the astonishing gift of a few thousand weeks isn’t a matter of resolving to “do something remarkable” with them. In fact, it entails precisely the opposite: refusing to hold them to an abstract and overdemanding standard of remarkableness, against which they can only ever be found wanting, and taking them instead on their own terms, dropping back down from godlike fantasies of cosmic significance into the experience of life as it concretely, finitely—and often enough, marvelously—really is. 

The Overstory by Richard Powers “Trees used to talk to people all the time. Sane people used to hear them.” The only question is whether they’ll talk again, before the end.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable. (Location 3,673)