Guiding Principles
Inspired by Tracy Durnell's lovely post about her principles for how she wanted to approach her website, I'm doing the same, though, as a page instead. Consider this a living document.
Table Of Contents
1: Undying Optimism
This is related to the third principle, but I think it's the most important and worth highlighting on its own. Negativity has had me in a death grip for as long as I can remember. While skepticism is something I've always found useful, constant doom and gloom is... suffocating.
So just like what I try to infuse my fiction with, I want to do the same with my site.
2: Kindness, Always
Somehow we equate kindness with softness, as though it's a weakness. I would argue it's the opposite. It's so much easier to succumb to impulses we'd rather not. It takes strength, grace, and humility to be kind to yourself and others.
While I have the latter down pat, the former... is a work in progress. This is me committing to kindness from the inside out, not merely from the outside.
3: Proactive Hope
Hope keeps us alive and moving forward. This is what I know. Though I also know it's its nothing without proactive progress. I may be only one person, though I aim to help foster connection, delight and knowledge-sharing across the internet.
4: Useful Beauty
As the textile artist and designer William Morris said: "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." I'd take it one step further. Why not both? Always?
In my published writing, and everything I create, I aim for this.
5: The Human Dream
We all share something in common, and that is our humanity: in all it's flawed, stunning beauty. Remembering our connection to our shared existence is something I try to do every day.
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