Jun 21, 2022·edited Jun 21, 2022Liked by Garrett Bucks
What a reminder and an invitation. I need a bursting heart emoji for this one!
(It also makes me think of several writer-philosophers I used to look up to who over the past several years have become ... people I wouldn't want to be anywhere near, all white men. Reading about Rennie I wonder if there's something about the frustration born of being someone who wants desperately to change the world and forgets along the way that it's about that invitation to connect and find solidarity, not about how completely people listen to or follow you.)
Garrett! Such a wise reflection. Especially sitting with critical connections (which your work helps motivate me to make) and this: “We are all given a set of places to live and a set of people whom we live around and a world full of isolation in pain. If that’s not an invitation I don’t know what is.” Amen to that invitation. Thanks for helping us answer it!
Thanks for providing such an incisive and humanizing set of reflections on one of my heroes.
What a reminder and an invitation. I need a bursting heart emoji for this one!
(It also makes me think of several writer-philosophers I used to look up to who over the past several years have become ... people I wouldn't want to be anywhere near, all white men. Reading about Rennie I wonder if there's something about the frustration born of being someone who wants desperately to change the world and forgets along the way that it's about that invitation to connect and find solidarity, not about how completely people listen to or follow you.)
Thanks Garrett!
I didn't know about Rennie, thanks for the history and also how you found your light to lead you away from hopelessness.
Garrett! Such a wise reflection. Especially sitting with critical connections (which your work helps motivate me to make) and this: “We are all given a set of places to live and a set of people whom we live around and a world full of isolation in pain. If that’s not an invitation I don’t know what is.” Amen to that invitation. Thanks for helping us answer it!