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“Identifying and pursuing our pleasures and hobbies help us remember that we are more than workers and consumers.”
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“Freedom is the presence of choice, play, and our full-bodied imaginations.”
“Havel called for circles of people—musical groups, literary gatherings, sporting clubs, beer-making societies—to gather together outside of their homes so that they could nourish what he called the “independent life of society.” He believed we need spaces like these where we can breathe free.”
“To gather with people offline and outside of our typical professional or family and friend groups around a shared hobby is to affirm that freedom is not only about rights and laws; freedom is about the ability to assemble, create, and find joy.”
“To live in truth is to refuse to be defined solely by what we consume, click, or produce for profit.”
“Assembling in public spaces to learn our hobbies or form or join existing guilds teaches not only patience and attention but how to have relationships.”
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“Calligraphy, quilting, knitting, watercolor painting, pottery—these are not only hobbies but ways we are coming together to practice for a larger civic life.”
“To take up a nib or a needle in public is to resist isolation, to insist on connection.”
“To live in truth here, now, today is to resist the forces that would like nothing more than to isolate, numb, and commodify us.”
“When we show up in spaces outsides our home where we can be creative and honest, what we build with our hands becomes a form of resistance against despair.”
“– Visit art supply stores, independent bookstores, and co-ops.”
“But Havel’s vision went beyond private acts of disobedience and noncompliance.”
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“To find or form a guild or creative circle: – Check local libraries, community centers, or arts councils.”
“Living in truth requires us to keep showing up in public for one another.”
“When we step outside the privacy of our homes and meet others in such shared pursuits, we encounter people we might otherwise never cross paths with: an engineer alongside a poet, a blue-haired teenager alongside a purple-haired retiree, a fire chief alongside a wedding calligrapher.”
“__________________________________ Excerpted from In Our Hands: A Maker’s Manifesto for Changing the World Through Creative Practices by Bonnie Smith Whitehouse.”
“It is to plant a flag of freedom in the soil of our everyday lives.”