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The ordinary is extraordinary
This is a post about the non-slogan-y kind of hope and change * Here’s a story from a few months ago that is still clinging to me. It’s not something that needs sense-making — it’s pretty pure and explicable. Which will be, I guess, one of the points of this whole post. Out on a…
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Fitter happier more productive
This is not a post about Radiohead, but they did have the right idea If there’s one word I’ve had to use over the past year more than I ever wanted to, it’s “efficient.” Actually, “creative” or “effective” could fit in that line, but “efficient” does arise a lot, to a rather cringeworthy degree. I…
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When the paradox is the point
This is a post about finding value in confusion (maybe, possibly, one day) “Confusion,” Henry Miller wrote in Tropic of Capricorn, “is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.” How much do you agree with this statement? Or rather: how much are you able to? Asking because, frankly, this…
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The nature of freedom
This is a post that is surprisingly not about nature Ah, freedom. What is freedom? It’s often said to be an inside job. At least, that’s what the typical self-help counseling and healing perspective will tell you. Probably, that’s correct. But I’m less interested in that being the case and more so in why that…
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Happiness only real when yours
This is a post that could’ve maybe been called “Spirituallergies Part 2,” but isn’t Did you know that one of the possible origins of word “hippie” puts it quite close to the word “woke”? Really. The line of evolution—according to one theory, anyway—started around 1904, moving from “hip” to “hippie” over the course of the…
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In defiance of slow motion suicide
This is a post about being alive, and maybe even liking it Does anyone remember Heathers? A better question might be, who doesn’t remember Heathers? Well…some people, probably, because in fact I recently rewatched Heathers with someone who had never seen it before. That was certainly an experience. In that this newbie to Heathers managed…
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When a job interview is a one-way street
This is a post about what happens when you go down a one-way street When I first started drafting this, I was knee-deep in a job search. Recently I waded out of said job search, thank the heavens, and while I’m sending out said gratitude, I should note that my present situation isn’t really going…
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Seasonal spirituallergies
This is a post about something I suffer from; you, too? Disclaimer: I wrote most of this about a year ago, but it hasn’t grown old yet, or even if it has, everything old is new again. Isn’t it always? Or maybe I should say, new age again. That’s what I mean by, and is…
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Goal hierarchy conflict and the severed self
This is a blog post that is definitely NOT about a self-help topic Tell me what you think about this phrase: The You You Are. Silly, right? What even is “the you you are”? If you’ve seen the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” of course, you’re way ahead of me, but perhaps you’re not in that…
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Backlogging
I haven’t written here in awhile, and it’s for good reason(s), the main reason being I haven’t known what to say. There’s an element of realizing I haven’t been entirely honest in my work here, too, and if you can’t be honest in your writing, then can you be honest at all? Realizing it has…
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