Curations

Playlists

2023 Koontz Christmas Letter https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jo1hLivhBnuCaQCfuDeBq?si=4581a38978db4818

Autumn from the Porch https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5z1wkXNM6jKibmI5Idi1wa?si=f42c86b785a94bab

40 Years https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7qXeOLpEBTjFTsxHqEUSY7?si=ab2b4ef2bc55486f

The Understory https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wUbyj72ix71h8X2cx8rJX?si=7a4437d0b6d44e41

Strawberry Season https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00dnH3NMWMFFwSwMqI9Db1?si=3ed0b25f539d4478

The Elements: Fire, Water, Wind Earth https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aDnhXJwRZrjggxbl9jxo0?si=2d8674aeb9c94eed

Taxi Feathers https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1oIvNxr8YAKoKZyTRiWwGw?si=076fcba504bc4bd7

Horizon Lines https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Oe1bEkMbGzapjXlwtlyhp?si=9271d8a78a3b4c93

Lemons, Melancholy, & Light https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zmihlAqPKhm6JaYY8zKLi?si=04b4a7f742104414

Peacocks & Velvet Hens https://open.spotify.com/playlist/713gWLSbYzqGxFd8mXbT6I?si=61ffad3fa9394d79

My Captain Fantastic https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2M38rcf5ClOfEEwtrEZiSU?si=a7b6f837089048c8

37: Nostalgia & New Beginnings https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2utRLZAXZ16Q05VTDRaG9H?si=8430243abe8c40a3

Blank Paper https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KZXIGjDaVgjz1Xy4iAlIT?si=1b242a88b30b4dd5

Autumn Light & Darkness https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lB0U81R6sSzoK1cTnKLNH?si=79df01972c9b4806

Movie Moments https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Nql1VbG6H3LfnY5O9VMbd?si=6c7a8aeb254f42d5

Home: Inside These Walls https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yE0yGEcZDum9xmUpOJ195?si=ea77b23aced1485b

America https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4zs1TZ2nBT9thKZbZqhOeS?si=48d839accf8d4bdc

The Gents https://open.spotify.com/playlist/17QUyC8A7sMrhsLAxxSqPp?si=C4LRsI9pRPK_IAuxMQ37jA

All the Ladies https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0QHNiH7ivE2cnujFGFSBZE?si=WEKgp0fUTnGF-m4WYly7sg

Birthdays https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2L0x85rAobmGOWxZSmLkwP?si=KzQlOTbDRNWznfahKGxseQ

The Times https://open.spotify.com/playlist/716ZSwm5rv855X68JTkOQ4?si=cldTcBUqRqC6w0v8MAyy9A

Love of All Kinds


Worth Revisiting

I love that the more I open myself up to the world, the more the universe opens itself up to me.

Harnaam Kaur

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realized what’s changed is you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Encouraging curiosity, purpose, and passion will set young people on a path for lifelong learning. Such encouragement, more than test scores alone, will unlock potential and prepare children to learn and adapt…

Heather McGowan & Chris Shipley

To avoid talking about racism can only hold our misinformation in place and prevent us from developing the necessary skills and perspectives to challenge the status quo.

Robin Diangelo

We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before–a way of life based on our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows anything is possible.

Shakti Gawain

Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.

Leo Babauta

You were losing your way and you were furious.

Carole Maso

Connection-lite can provide us with fleeting, marshmallowy dopamine and oxytocin hits. And a vague sense of satisfaction that, tick, we’ve attended to some commitment or other. But like the diet version of anything, it leaves us hungry for the real thing.

Sarah Wilson

I was wild until I was tamed by shame. Until I started hiding and numbing my feelings for fear of being too much. Until I started deferring to others’ advice instead of trusting my own intuition…I lost myself when I learned how to please.

Glennon Doyle

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

If we are to understand the Human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self doubt, extravagance of feeling guilt joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation both as Human Being and as Artist, we have to know all we can about each other and we have to be willing to go naked.

May Sarton

The trip didn’t change our life. The trip was our life, and it remains our life, forevermore. The trip didn’t change how we are a family; we are a family, and we are all changing, the whole time. For that year, we each got to be the scaffold around which the others grew. The miracle of the trip was that we were all together to notice it.

Dan Kois

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin–real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Alfred D’Souza

We might want to rethink our values. Reject certain aspects of the status quo. Reposition ourselves against the currents (raging at times) that pull us away from our own center.

Debra Ollivier

This was respect, I thought: to look and keep looking, not to look away as soon as you’d gotten what you needed. Respect meant letting your subjects get older, letting them get more complicated, letting them subvert the narratives you’d written for them. It meant having enough stamina and humility to say: I’m not done.

Leslie Jamison

We want these answers, these solutions. We try so hard. We wait. It is a mixture of dreaming Big and Far and then turning towards what is just right here. Right now.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

In all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

Contact

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree.

W.B. Yeats

Your work must be underpinned with intention.

Seth Godin

Our judgment is self-protection; it’s a cage we put around ourselves. We hope it will keep danger out, but it only keeps tenderness and empathy from coming in.

Glennon Doyle