The Self-Reliance Project
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Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Responding
Responses are reactions, and reactions demand attention.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Distancing
Will social alienation make us a socially alien nation?
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Surrendering
Surrender is the art of uncertainty: it’s the practice of giving in, not giving up.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Sheltering
Shelter is not so much a gesture of imprisonment as an invitation to dream.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Canoeing
What is an actor without an audience? A person—that’s what.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Burning
To read a poem allows you to visit words, the same way you might, say, go to a museum to visit a particular painting.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Recalibrating
To measure your worth against what life looked like until last month is a fool’s errand.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Longing
Wanting what is not possible—no matter how you define your object of desire—is a recipe for disappointment.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Listening
Sound cuts right through you and tells its own story—whether you like it or not.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Harvesting
What kind of work would you make if you thought no one was looking?
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Breathing
Breathing is one of those things you take for granted. Until you can’t.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Looking
What it means to be a maker during this pandemic.
