#accumulate

[markscherz]

you’re super good at taking selfies congrats

and we haven't even scratched the surface

[tomihara-design]

「集まる／集める」

[economicsresearch]

page 557 - there, do you see?

Now remove a layer.

[dk-thrive]

Like pebbles on a blanket at the beach they stop it from drifting away or flying up in your face. Having nice things makes you feel like you’re doing a good job and shuts everybody else up.

Possibly because when my parents got married and I was born—the two events happening in quick succession—they didn’t have any things. Nothing at all and as far as I know nobody gave them anything. Nothing they wanted in any case. They started absolutely from scratch. And so naturally it became important to have things. It helps make unexpected circumstances seem planned and even desirable. Things hold life in place. Like pebbles on a blanket at the beach they stop it from drifting away or flying up in your face. Having nice things makes you feel like you’re doing a good job and shuts everybody else up. There’s nothing anybody can say to you so long as you have nice things all around you. They can’t touch you. And as time went on there were more and more nice things, lovely things.

― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19: A Novel (Riverhead Books, March 1, 2022) 

[mleighsquickspot]

M'L Instant

Accumulate...

Watch the ground disappear

The world turns white where it was once green

Everything covered in ice

The sound of chipping becomes a days melody

Stomp, crunch, push through the deep white flakes all pilled upon each other by the foot load

There were foot prints and angels right here yesterday, where are they now...

Only the snow filled layers know

image: Snow Rollers Blanket Midwest

Have a blessed day my friends ❄

[quotes-for-the-soul]

Take Stanford. Because Stanford is filled with students with top high-school GPAs and SAT scores, administrators can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We only admit the best students. We’re a meritocracy.' The students are encouraged to think similarly. But is it just a coincidence that the median annual family income of a Stanford student is $167,500 while the national median is roughly one-third that? Did those high-achieving students naturally get high SAT scores, or did they benefit from their parents’ paying for tutors and sending them to private schools? Privilege accumulates as you advance in life. If the college you attend is the basis of your future employment networks, then it is impossible to say that your employment success is solely based on merit.

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang

[makingtrains]

Accumulation

An art assignment of various... things