But that’s not life.

“Social media is a notoriously difficult place to express any of the hard, nuanced stuff in life…”

On Being with Courtney E. Martin

“I think it’s about the way that we so often shroud the creation of things — books, businesses, babies — in mystery. We go public when the website looks perfect, when the book has its endorsements and its authoritative author photo, when the baby has arrived, safe and sound and wrinkly. But that’s not life. That’s respectability.”

http://onbeing.org/blog/courtney-martin-how-the-sausage-gets-made/8050

“What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”

-Anne Lamott