42. The Difference Between Constructive Criticism And Just Criticism
It’s Sunday.
Here’s a few things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. The difference between constructive criticism and just criticism
Genuine constructive criticism helps a person achieve the goals they have set for themselves.
If your advice helps them do what YOU think they should do differently, it’s just criticism and judginess.
Please watch this if you’re still confused.
2. A Poem
The Thing Is — Ellen Bass
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you down like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.
3. Do this, Trust me.
This has completely changed how I journal.
4. The Simple Life
“What I think people mean by ‘the simple life’ is the uncomplicated essence of it all, and, yes, there is a timeless simplicity to it. I’ve found that when you peel off the plastic that industrial civilisation vacuum-packs around you, what remains couldn’t be simpler.
Healthy food.
Something to be enthusiastic about.
Fresh air.
A sense of belonging and aliveness.
Good water.
Purpose.
Intimacy.
A vital and deep connection to life.
The kind of things I did without for too many years.”
— Kai
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This is the story of a man who detached himself from society to find out what life has to offer once the comforts of modern life have been stripped away.
5. Wonder Valley Olive Oil
The story of Wonder Valley via Faculty Department.
There are two types of people who make their home in the High Desert. Those who seek to impose their vision on the land, and those who wait to hear what the desert has to say. Jay and Alison Carroll are of the latter sort—East Coasters originally, they opened themselves to the desert’s language when they moved to Joshua Tree four years ago. They brought what they knew—in Al’s case, an understanding of the cultivation and processing of olive oil, in Jay’s case, how to recapture the character of derelict buildings—and set up their own olive oil business, Wonder Valley.
Buy Wonder Valley in the UK here.
See you next Sunday.