Reading Archives (2022)
Be Vigilance
Vigilance is often misunderstood. Usually what passes for vigilance is careful monitoring by the superego. I'm sure you're very...
Gamble On Humanity
What if the future is soft and revolution is so kind that there is no end to us in sight. Whole cities breathe and bad luck is bested...
How Much Silence Is Too Much?
Ours is a noisy country. We’ve been rebellious, insolent shouters since the beginning. We invent freak shows and circuses and...
How We Wrestle Is Who We Are
I remember pacing hospital and house and hills, and thinking that his operations would either work or not and he would either live or...
Appearance As A Gift
Our whole experience of life is a relationship. Every single moment is centered in the way we relate to what is happening. To...
Good Bones, Pushing Water
We had a small water crisis at our home this week. The break happened within a wall, and so we didn’t realize at first that a...
Small Kindnesses
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers...
Two Stonemasons
Consider the story of two stonemasons. you walk up to the first stonemason and ask, ‘Do you like your job?’ He looks up at...
Hopium
The problem with hope is that it’s bipolar. Every time we rely on hope, we always bring in fear. Wisdom teaches that...
Meeting Our Own Mortality
Stories have helped us make meaning of the world, from ancient times when our ancestors whispered around campfires. Inner mental models...
A Flower's Job Is To Bloom
A powerful moment in My Fair Lady is when Henry Higgins's mother commiserates with a sobbing Eliza Dolittle. Eliza is distraught...
Paying Attention
Attention is thought to have evolved to solve one of the brain’s biggest challenges: There is far more information in our...