Daily Compass

Sometimes what we think is restricting us is just an illusion, and we are actually free to slip through the bars to freedom.

What false limitation are you prepared to give up?

These days, pretty much anywhere you go somebody’s eyes are watching you. Which adds to our security, but subtracts from our privacy and freedom.

What are you willing to give up in the way of privacy and freedom for the sake of security? What is going too far?

“Freedom. It isn’t once, to walk out
under the Milky Way, feeling the rivers
of light, the fields of dark—
freedom is daily, prose-bound, routine
remembering. Putting together inch by inch
the starry worlds. From all the lost collections.”
―Adrienne Rich

How do you find freedom in reclaiming history or memory?

As the Beatles so famously sang, money can’t buy you love. But it can buy a certain degree of freedom, whether in the shape of freedom from worry or in the shape of the freedom to pursue dreams.

What freedom would you like to have the money to buy?

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
―William Faulkner

What is one way you deliberately practice freedom?