The Attentive Body/Elaine Konopka

07/05/2025

Beautiful thoughts on the Earth and our connection to it, from the inquisitive, insightful Riwa Harfoush.

Transcendence is cool, but have you tried composting?

30/04/2025

Sometimes it’s not the pain that drains us, it’s the fight against feeling it.
Pain can be loud, sharp, persistent.
But underneath it, there’s something soft.
A body that still believes in its own wholeness.
Still trying. Still fighting for the life it knows is possible.
And maybe that’s not weakness at all.
Maybe that’s love, in its most physical form.

10/04/2025

Your body isn’t just something you have — it’s who you are! and the way you experience life.

It holds memories, stories, and wisdom deeper than words. And as humans, we often forget about this.

06/03/2025

18/01/2025

26/10/2024

“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
- George Bernard Shaw

22/10/2024

Do you agree?

"I lived when simply waiting was a large part of ordinary life: when we waited, gathered around a crackling radio, to hear the infinitely far-away voice of the king of England… I live now when we fuss if our computer can’t bring us everything we want instantly. We deny time.
We don’t want to do anything with it, we want to erase it, deny that it passes. What is time in cyberspace? And if you deny time you deny space. After all, it’s a continuum—which separates us.
So we talk on a cell phone to people in Indiana while jogging on the beach without seeing the beach, and gather on social media into huge separation-denying disembodied groups while ignoring the people around us.
​I find this virtual existence weird, and as a way of life, absurd. This could be because I am eighty-four years old. It could also be because it is weird, an absurd way to live."
~ Ursula K. LeGuin, Interview by Heather Davis

16/10/2024

Learning is the only thing for you. ❤️‍🔥

16/10/2024

And ice. And steam... Tsunamis and fog...