by Havi Brooks | Sep 13, 2011 | stuff I think about
So right now it’s Rally (Rally!). This is Rally #13. Which is rather an astonishing number of Rallies to have rallied, if you think about it. Didn’t we just come up with the idea?! And we — that is to say, me, fourteen other people and Selma the duck...
by Havi Brooks | May 10, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Why is such a tricky question. Maybe even the trickiest. There are times when it is so completely not useful to ask why. The resistance-filled why, which takes me into self-interrogation and blame. But there is also the helpful why. The one that is loving, curious and...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 6, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
There is the why that is about self-inquiry. It is inquisitive. It expresses genuine curiosity. “Huh. I wonder what elements combined to get me here.” Then there’s the why that is really asking why the hell am I like this and not the way I want to be...