THE ACTIVATION ESSAYS
Written by Sarrah Rose
The Activation Essays explore what it means to become more fully alive—and more fully expressed.
The essays examine the forces that shape who we become and how we live: Love and desire. Identity and achievement. Beauty and culture. Relationships and sexuality. Power and belonging. Technology and creativity. The body, the mind, and the complicated experience of being human.
Some begin with intimate relationships. Others with a cultural moment, a personal experience, an idea, or something happening in the world around us.
But underneath them is the same inquiry:
What becomes possible when we stop organizing our lives entirely around who we learned we had to be—and become more available to who we are, what we love, and the life we are actually living?
SELECTED ESSAY
MAYBE THAT'S WHY IT'S WORTH IT
What if the difficulty of love isn’t evidence that something has gone wrong—but part of what makes becoming more fully alive possible?