Living a Big Life (Part II): My Age of Magical Underthinking
To live a big life you have to get used to living in the moment– because the moment is all there is.
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If You Think You’re Drowning, Let It Take You
Low tide acts as disclosure, while also marking that the heartbeat of the sea has reached its depths and will begin to rise again.
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Save Your Crisis for After Lunch
We shape our environments simply by recognizing ourselves with candor and allowing ourselves to understand that crises of our faith are often as simple as being hungry.
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Living a Big Life (Part I): The Paradox of Depth and Breadth
A rehabilitation of the fig tree metaphor for anyone who’s ever felt paralyzed by possibility, anyone who’s read ‘The Idiot’ three times, and anyone suspicious of the phrase “dream big.”
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Your Self-Indulgence is Stunting Your Emotional Growth
Speak what you desire. There is no one coming to give you permission to stop being afraid of being known.
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Exercising Agency and Remembering the Rules are all Made Up
In this life, we are sentenced to freedom. So do we exercise agency? Or do we resign ourselves to outsourcing our values, judgements, ideas, desires, and rules?
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Academia in Literature: Fall/Winter Personal Curriculum
Objective: focus my personal and continuing education into an organized topic with deadlines, expectations, and a final capstone.
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summer blues and her birthday
A poem for my friend on her 25th.
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Get More Attention Span-Quick Scheme: a Mid-Year Resolution
My solitude used to be a refuge, and now it seems as though I’m conditioned to consider solitude the very thing from which I need refuge.
