Abby Paradis

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Abby Paradis |Ben Ulansey

When meaning’s not on the menuCurated content, algorithmic affirmation, and frictionless interface design have made it easy to appear connected, fulfilled, even inspired, without ever anchoring those moments to real meaning. Now, we skim the surfaces of our lives, digitally and otherwise, increasingly becoming fluent in gestures of feeling that may never actually touch the soul. I noticed something simmering, an ache beneath the dopamine hits, but it was easy to confuse activity with vitality.

1 month ago | medium.com | Abby Paradis |Ben Ulansey

Justice has always been a threat to powerAmerica loves its martyrs best when they’re dead and defenseless. That’s the only way to explain how Martin Luther King, Jr., a man once labeled a threat to national security by his own government, now decorates the National Mall and public school classrooms like a sanitized prophet of dreams. I was a kid in one of those classrooms.

2 months ago | medium.com | Abby Paradis |Vidya Sury

Member-only storySELF-AWARENESSHere’s why I keep my head in the cloudsAbby Paradis·FollowPublished inNamaste Now·6 min read·--All images by Author | All skies were photographed from the window of the author’s flat. On a low bookcase, I sit and look out over my sun-drying laundry. I listen to the weary wisdom of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now filling the air and setting the mood. Her melody rises and falls like the drifting clouds above, and the shifting light on the rooftops below.