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2026
“Clouds blow across the sky, a flight of birds sweeps past, the breath moves, the Mars rover inches along in the red dust. Without the...
Alone is not lonely
I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have grown up in a kind of enforced but benign solitude, being an only child and living in a...
“One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.” — Too-Ticky/ Tove Jansson
“There's no sincere path you can take in life without having your heart broken.” — David Whyte
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“In the event that you wake up and find your soul separated from source and manifest into material form, don’t panic. Your condition is only...
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” — Henry James
I like this from Doc Searls. “See, stories themselves are a problem, both in human nature (we love and live stories) and in journalism, which...
It seems to me there are no meaningful or practical politics remaining in the exhausted left versus right axis. What appears much more fertile is...
Nail hit squarely on the head. No wonder she won. “Because life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line...
So I went and tried Terry Godier’s new RSS reader Current. The only thing I liked about it was it’s lack of an unread count,...
Whatever practice one may be engaged in, I would place one requirement above all others — above habit, endurance, persistence, ritual, technique, and study —...
I remember getting caught in New York during the 1993 Storm of the Century. The heating in the apartment I was staying in conked out...
“We go on—not upward, not forward, but just on…” — Anon
Out in the wilderness today…
Everything we can know about consciousness is contained within the experience of consciousness itself.
In terms of one’s immediate phenomenological experience in this moment, there is no difference between the memory of an actual experience you once had and...
What stories and narratives of self will you be holding onto as you’re dying? Which begs the rather more urgent question, what stories are you...
“When you try to cover the living with explanations, there is death to the living, and that is what most of us desire – we...
