thank you so much! I think I do most of what you said, except for the saying hi part.

when I read your comment I felt like I was wasting your time writing in a confusing way and you came and wrote me this kind and attentive tip.

and now that gives me a tip of why it's so hard for me to say hi. I feel like I'm invading people's space and taking their time. if I don't say hi, it's like I'm throwing words or my presence to the wind so people don't feel they have to engage with me, only if they really want to.

I have a question for you ahaha what does it mean when you react with 🤔? 😬

thank you. I felt hugged! 🌻

when I came here I had to deal with the silence. I had no idea of who to follow and was to afraid or arrogant to ask. I started writing about important things to me and people didn't see it - I followed not a single soul. but than I saw a post from nostr:nprofile1qqsvlca5x9keq5e4km8q26aqas3skkr6xdpcr6ptlxsz5xz095rglrgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yanfv4mjucm0d5qs7amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummn9eek7cmfv9kqrx23d6 and she embraced me and I felt like seeing other people's posts and talking to them. and I started to find more interesting people along the way. I don't follow many people bacause I can't deal with many posts. you don't need an algorithm to make your experience. but I think it helps if you feel you're welcome. and you are. it's not that anyone here needs you or me to be here, it's just that we are glad if you are and if you find people who you can talk to and feel enlightened and inspired and all that. what are you interested in?

hey you :)

I'm not good at greeting people. when I was nine years old I was at a gymnastics competition and I had to greet the judges, but I skipped this part and was disqualified.

I was always afraid of meeting people I knew in the street because I would have to say hi. when I see you saying gm, ga, gn it triggers me somehow and I have no idea why I'm so afraid of saying hello.

I saw you saying those things and it was strange, but it also made me think about cycles and communities and kindness. I love people and I love talking to people and I think it's beautiful that we have this rituals of encountering and going away. that's the way I've been seeing this, but it still feels awkward to greet. I guess I had to find my own way to honor the presence of people. I tried in this post, but I don't feel it is that. 🤷🏽‍♀️ do you have any tips? 😬

“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.” Seymour Papert

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." John Dewey

♥️✨ thank you!

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I'd love to read more texts like the one I read in you site, about emotions, I'd love to read what you've learned in this life, your experiences

quotes and small sentences are just calls for starting conversations.

what have you learned unintentionally only because you were passionate about?

It's not about destroying something out there, but about abandoning everything in us that sustains it.

"During the 1960s, many young people were talking about revolutionary changes in society. Paul [Goodman] used to say to them, "Suppose you had had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now! Whatever you would do then, do it now. When you run up against obstacles, people or things that won't let you live that way, then begin to think about how to get over or around or under that obstacle, or how to push it out of the way, and your politics will be concrete and practical." Very good advice. The trick is to find ways to put your strongest ideals into practice in daily life. I don't mean talking to other people about it, or saying, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all did this or that." I mean doing it right now. It is interesting, absorbing, fascinating, satisfying, and useful. You don't have to wait for a hundred million people to agree with you, you can start right away. And when you find that you are able to do something, the very fact that you can do it means that anyone else who wants to can also do it"

"Celebrating 100 Issues," Growing Without Schooling ft 100, Vol. 17, No. 3, July/August 1994, p. 35.

excerpts from the book "how children fail":

"The question I have been trying to answer for many years is: Why don't they learn what we teach them? The answer I have come to boils down to this: Because we teach them--that is, try to control the contents of their minds."

"A few good principles to keep in mind:

(1) Children do not need to be "taught" in order to learn; they will learn a great deal, and probably learn best, without being taught.

(2) Children are enormously interested in our adult world and what we do there.

(3) Children learn best when the things they learn are embedded in a context of real Life, are part of what George Dennison, in The Lives of Children, called "the continuum of experience."

(4) Children learn best when their learning is connected with an immediate and serious purpose."

looking through my email drafts, I found this (saved in 2013):

"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die."

John Taylor Gatto

I'm curious about the book. if you don't mind I would love to hear about it.

I prefer the second one. for me it is simple and beautiful. the first and the third have details that I think add too information to the image for me. if there wasn't the second option maybe I wouldn't notice, cause they're fine.

oh Lois! I wish you a great day! thank you for being such an inspiration! you inspire me to look at my body, at my feet and to really take care of it. you inspire me to have the courage to be myself, to accept my body and this material presence - and that's so challenging for me. I'm sending you this hug while I feel the presence of my body landed here. ♥️♥️

what you wrote made me realize that here on nostr I can create my own way to communicate what comes to me. it's not that I can't do it elsewhere, but I always felt like I had to fit in some kind of structure and that was so uncomfortable to me. in my experiences here I've been finding freedom within myself to express my thoughts and feelings. I still have a lot to unpack, but I feel some kind of courage.

when was your birthday? ♥️

hahahaha she is beautiful