To Admire
Compiled by Erica Allen, college student from central Kentucky.Marquees by Jenny Holzer, 1993 via lioneater.
To remember:
“Raise boys and girls the same way.”
and
“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.”
(via unicornology)
I went through large parts of my twenties consumed with worry that I wouldn’t make something of myself, that I wouldn’t live up to my own internal standard of success. I have something inside me, wound up like a spring, that won’t let me stop until I’m creating something and putting it out into the world.
Meg Keene knows my mind.
I’m glad that I was trained with the idea that you show up Every Single Day (we were only allowed three absences in studio per semester), no matter how sh*tty or uncreative you were feeling, and you do the work. You do the work when what you’re doing sucks, you do the work when what you are doing seems brilliant, you do the work when you’d rather be in bed. And thank God, because that takes some serious pressure off. You just have to show up and work, not show up and do brilliant work. So every day these days, I show up. I write stuff. I send emails. Sometimes it sucks. Sometimes it’s brilliant. But I’m glad I know that I have to do it every day.
Meg Keene on A Practical Wedding: “Working For Yourself: Month One”
For me, this was what absolutely killed my academics last year—depression and a long perfectionist streak and, oh boy, I felt/feel enormous pressure to do something amazingly right OR curl up in bed in paralyzing despair.
