# week 21 of 2025 **May 19 - 25, 2025** ![[rewild.png]] --- > I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. > > — Kurt Vonnegut > The purpose of being a serious writer is to keep people from despair…. If people read your work and, as a result, choose life, then you are doing your job. > > — Sarah Manguso > The poetry of prototyping is the vulnerable attempt, the tangible trying. The willingness to venture, knowing it might fail. The investment of commitment to even the most sloppy version of a possible newness. A thing being prototyped is trying to get born, unfolding right there in front of you. > > — [Sara Hendren](https://sarahendren.substack.com/p/now-it-springs-up)