I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success. (…) Something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success. I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

• brightwanderer, tumblr post

Defining success as “do it forever” is a very capitalistic view of the human creative process.

It’s just warm enough to enjoy a caturday on the back deck.

The flowers have all arrived to give spring a proper return.

Most truths are like that, easy to hear or recite, hard to live in the sense that slowness is hard for most of us, requiring commitment, perseverance, and return after you stray. Because the job is not to know; it’s to become. A sociopath knows what kindness is and how to weaponize it; a saint becomes it.

• Rebecca Solnit, Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

Rebecca focuses this around political change but I feel like it applies to personal growth and development just as well. Want to loose weight? Write or draw more? Be a better friend? Take the slower, grace-filled path of becoming.

It’s finally that time of year when the sun’s warmth beams in through the skylight.