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Tag: relational maintenance

  • Maintenance Is Not Stagnation — Part IV

    Maintenance Is Not Stagnation — Part IV

    Maintenance is the quiet labour of keeping things from falling apart. In a culture that celebrates novelty and growth, the work of care, repetition, and repair is easily misread as inertia — when it is often the very continuity that allows relationships, bodies, and institutions to endure.

  • The Violence of “More” – Part III

    The Violence of “More” – Part III

    The pressure for “more” rarely feels like violence — until it becomes impossible to arrive anywhere without wondering what comes next. When growth is the only acceptable state, rest, repetition, and sufficiency begin to look like failure rather than the rhythms that sustain a life.