English. English is the universal language so that’s necessary. The language of the people around you. Always take into account where you’re at – lots of people speak Arabic, Hindi, and Russian, but if you’re living and/or working in Rwanda and learn any of those before Kinyarwanda you’re an idiot. The language of people who are never going to learn either. If you’re an English speaker it’s not useful or efficient that you learn Spanish or French like most people think, the fact is that most French and Spanish speaking people are already doing the hard work of communication for you from the other way ’round by learning English. Language learning is about…

Most of the longest novels I’ve ever read were written by regular people in their spare time. Not well-known authors, just random regular people you run across online who post their works for free. For example, on the Western half of the world,

Somewhat quoting Frederick Burnham, “Foremost, she holds a complacent belief in the unending plenty of our natural wealth.” By this I mean she holds a smug belief that the limits of Man, as self/creator/thinker, are nonexistent and good and positively bountiful (‘positively’ loosely defined by her as ‘positive,’ which is vague and leaves it up to her to define the terms however she wishes, which she does). And that Man has all right to do whatever they wish and can, a limitless perspective, in/with/and to the world. A world which is strictly limited (limitless is impossible). She smugly thinks the world’s resources are limitless and to thus be used by…

A lot of good can be done if people just replace ‘people, men, women, &c.’ for ‘culture’ in their vocabulary. Ex. “I love black… culture.” “Man, sometimes I can’t stand white… culture.” “Wow, you really like asian… culture.” “I hate m… male culture.” “Wom… female culture, right?” “You talk like a whi… someone raised in a white culture.” “You don’t act like a gir… someone raised by female culture.” It’s the word people really mean to use anyways. There are good and bad aspects to every known culture, and thus to everyone raised in and by those cultures. When you use ‘culture’ you’re giving the conversation enough room for someone…

Someone once said the human body was biologically made to walk. Dancing I think, helps the body so much because of that.

Language is a poor translator. You ask me how a moment feels, and after proper consideration I say, "Like Rwanda...

People aren’t actually obsessed with their phones. If they were they’d get one without putting most of their attention on how good the camera is. A phone’ll cost you $99 tops, a camera $300+, what are you carrying? When you pull it out at concerts and car crashes to snap a couple, when you meet your idols and your first thought is to ask for a pic, when you’re in presence of good food and great views and your first thought is to capture rather than to breathe fumes, and when you can’t go anywhere without it, you’ve got to realize that your phone doesn’t take pictures, your camera sometimes…