JA Westenberg

JA Westenberg

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JA Westenberg
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Eat for yourself, not for anyone else
Work to pay your bills, not to validate your worth
Buy things, not signals
Live your own life, not for your feed

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The Ordinary Sacred

A Philosophy of Happiness Through the Uncurated Life In 1953, Ernest Dichter—the father of motivational research—wrote that the American consumer was no longer purchasing soap to clean themselves, but to feel clean.

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Rocketman hat dies geteilt.

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Madeleine Morris

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I saw this short but beautiful documentary about a Japanese woman who had owned an umbrella for 10 years, and kept getting it repaired. When the interviewer noted that she must have spent far more money on repairs than the cost of a new umbrella, she stroked it and said… but this one is my friend. We have a long history together.

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JA Westenberg

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@Remittancegirl I love that

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Madeleine Morris

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I cannot seem to refind the link. It was an NHK short.

But it had a very powerful effect on me. I’ve been brought up to really disdain material things. While this has made me a bad consumer, it has also meant that I have no emotional attachment to the things I do own. Disposing of them was easy.

Honestly, the doc changed me. I gave myself permission to cherish some things. To want to hold onto them, and care for them more.

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Madeleine Morris

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Found it! www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/sho…

The umbrella lady is just one of the stories in it, and clearly, in my memory, I put words in her mouth. Hahahah. But the spirit of the idea of giving things a dignity is still very much there.

Repair - Japanology Plus | NHK WORLD-JAPAN

*First broadcast on January 23, 2025. As the need for circular economies grows, there's a new focus on repairing products. We look at how people in Japan maintain items using approaches ranging from traditional kintsugi to modern skills.

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RightSprung will not comply

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This is lovely, and true, and needs to be said.

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OpticMystic

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beautifully written. thank you. as someone said "be the change you wanna see in the world"... day by day, one step at a time. the success of faillure is growing. take it easy, but take it :)

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Rick Malek

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"The Ordinary Sacred" - we probably knew it as children. Maybe we just need to remember what it was like before we had to "be someone".

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JA Westenberg

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@rickmalek truth

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Mikael Suomela

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I'm in the process of reading Albert Borgmann's “Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry” (1984). Your essay seems to complement Borgmann quite nicely.

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gregg r

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This is excellent: "Saying 'no' and not explaining." It reminded me of this from Catherine Valente: "No is the heart of thinking."

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your fridge inspector

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> A cheeseburger—greasy, simple, immediate—is not a compromise. It’s an honest answer. You don’t have to justify it. You just have to chew.

nah, you •do• have to justify it, because that #cheeseburger is made out of someone's #flesh and someone's #breastmilk. 🍔🥩🥛

nothing "honest" about that, as it takes an awful lot of denial to justify slicing someone's throat to give pleasure to your taste buds. 🐮🔪🩸

please do eat with #kindness for other people, not just for yourself. #govegan 🌱🧆🍟

#govegan #kindness #cheeseburger #flesh #breastmilk

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