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“Tide‘s coming in,” she said.
Looks like it.
He was a bit startled to hear the voice.
As usual, when he looked up, no one was there.
He was still alone here, at the End of All Things.
It had taken a long...
“Sorry,” he said, “sorry,” as he wedged himself between my window seat overlooking the sea and the wall outlet destined to recharge his phone.
He then sat at my table, directly across from my steaming ...
The most basic right is to defend yourself, to protect your life. So what happens when the enemy is you? You still have to fight back!
A Dangerous Foe
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
What is you...
What would increase your well-being and satisfaction? More health? More wealth? Better relationships? Whether you want fame and fortune or just peace and quiet, it all starts with one question: Are yo...
Sometimes the search for happiness involves touchy-feely discussions, sometime techy talks. This week we are getting a bit scientific and have more to say about everyone’s favorite molecule: dopamine....
The epistemological debate regarding free will is out of my philosophical wheelhouse; I will leave it to the theologians. But I do know this:
While we don’t choose our genetics or the circumstances of ...
Journitation is a portmanteau I created to highlight the importance of combining journaling and meditation. I believe that the whole of this practice is greater than the sum of its parts.
Journaling
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Man is weak, and community is therefore indispensable.
- C.G. Jung
Our connections to people evolve, as do we.
When you graduated from your secondary (high school) education, what you thought were “forev...
I have three nice pens.
One is a Cross that my mother gave me many years ago. I told her, “I’ll write my Ph.D. dissertation with this.” (I did, when I was 29). Another is a Waterman Expert, still in it...
I would never think to tell anyone how to live; that is a concept as individual as you and as malleable as water.
What I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very l...
Life is a series of unpredictable events. We bounce along between triumph and tragedy, spend too much time in survival mode, and never get a clear read on exactly why we are here. Sometimes our contin...
Everyone has a past.
Every past has some moments of triumph and some embarrassments, some great decisions and some regrets. As I have previously written, It is important to remember the people, places,...
Much has been said about authenticity: why we should be real, brah—regarding who we are and what we want. But pull back the curtain, and you find that we are each a jumble of disjointed foibles: inacc...
Loss comes in many forms - betrayal, abandonment, death - and from many sources: the end of a decades-long relationship, the death of parents, the loss of a career, the loss of a beloved geographic ar...
I know people who “got old” in their 30s. I have friends who in their mid 80s still carry hundred-pound stacks of bricks to do masonry work, because it interests them and they’re good at it. If you fo...
