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meaning-making, rituals, giving/receiving dilemmas, and our purpose Originally posted by Pavel S on his substack, On Humanity, on June 4 2023 Over the past few months, I’ve been journaling more frequently than usual, and yesterday’s group discussion with Sasha Sagan in Cambridge, MA inspired me to share

Spotlighting a pianist and her journey to mastery Originally posted by Pavel S on his substack, On Humanity, in May 2023 Welcome to Creative Humans (formerly Creative Fridays), a feature of On Humanity to engage and inspire readers to create new things and share your own creative journeys. The following

Originally posted by Zelda on her substack, Tomorrow’s Ancestors  I had to step into the world of art to realize that creativity can happen in every moment. Back then, I was studying dance at a professional level and I started to experience patterns between my life in the studio

Originally posted by Pavel S on his substack, On Humanity, on Jan. 29 2023 Every weekend in January (except for today) feels like an observation of yet another cultural beginning. The New (Gregorian) New Year was on the 1st and 2nd this time, Eastern Orthodox Christmas took place on the

Originally posted by Shahid H N on his substack, shahid’s riffs This post is inspired by and riffs on Joe Lonsdale’s piece on dialectical wisdom. Between “self-accountability”… For most of my adult life, my self-growth came from being somewhat hard on myself. My self-talk said, “Work hard, make

Originally posted in RETURN The phone rang in my parents’ Park Avenue apartment. Not a phone. The phone. It was the late 1980s or early 1990s, I forget exactly when. Mobile phones were an unheard-of luxury, even for a double-income household on the Upper East Side. When the narrator of