Julian JP Lee

from the week of: 29 September 2025

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I’ll keep having fun while helping people, and before I know it, I’d have saved the world.

—Himmel the Hero, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

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Listen to your body. Let them play once in a while!!!

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Those who are glad to help you will be glad to help you.

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Do not worry;

Do not fear;

Do not try;

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Being sexual doesn’t make you bad.

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What work to avoid?

⠀⠀Wastes of time; wastes of life…

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What work is not a waste?

⠀⠀Work you like… 

⠀⠀With people you like…

⠀⠀With a pay you like…

⠀⠀In an arrangement you like…

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When I realized the longevity of nuclear waste, it was as though time turned inside out. It wasn’t a question any more of how much we can accomplish in a small amount of time, but how long we can continue to do the same thing. How can we sustain our attention on the poison fire? If you just take that into your chest, it alters your metabolism. Can you feel that?

—Joanna Macy

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Speed and haste, as many a wise one has pointed out, are inherently violent. The violence they inflict on our environment is not only because of our appetite for time-saving devices and the materials to make them but also because they put us out of sync with the ecosystem. The natural systems that sustain us move at slower rhythms than we do.

—Joanna Macy