Control What We Can Control
Let’s follow our passions and create something good.
The Secondhand Inspiration Project begins with a motivational quote and ventures wherever the creative path meanders.
“We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose. As physicists know, we don’t choose the particular atoms that constellate our particular selves or the neural configurations that fire our consciousness. In consequence, as James Baldwin knew, we don’t even choose whom we love.
But amid our slender repertoire of agency are the labels we choose for our labors of love — the works of thought and tenderness we make with the whole of who we are.”
- Maria Popova
Let’s inventory everything we have endured in the past couple of years — polarizing political tensions, the ongoing Coronapocalypse, social anarchy, fractured leadership, environmental fragility, and rising concerns for the future.
Society has veered off-track, with destiny teetering on the precipice of uncertainty. We have become reluctant tightrope walkers crossing on a thin strand of optimism — one misstep and balance will feel urgent and irrelevant all at once.