#Seasonal Rhythms

Tending the Self Like a Living Garden

Haemin Sunim’s line begins by overturning a common metaphor: the self as a machine built for constant output. Instead, he offers the self as a garden—alive, changing, and responsive to conditions.

Honoring Our Human Seasons, Not Machine Rhythms

Katherine May’s line gently pushes back against a modern assumption: that we should operate like machines—steady, efficient, and endlessly available. By stating “we are not machines,” she reframes fatigue and fluctuation...