The Collapse of Normal, the Rise of Healing
A crisis has come to shake us awake and we stare at our lives with renewed eyes, seeing our predicament as for the first time, wondering how did it ever become our "normal".
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Being Single Alone
It’s Valentine’s Day, or as we call it on this website, “Valiant Day”, and since this time tends to wreck the nerves of us single people, I thought I would come out of my Writer’s Block to share the best advice I can give you on how to deal with singleness in a world of coupledness. And that advice is: “You do not talk about being single with people who are coupled”. Now you may be thinking “whaaat?”, so don’t worry, I will expand on this. And if you regularly find yourself in painful conversations with your coupled friends, you may want to read until the end. …
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Loving for the Love of it
We are expanding the story of "love", creating more spaces where love can flow as it wants to, without conforming to a certain "path". We are learning to love without attachment.
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Disciplined Minds
We are living through Burning Times, and there’s a comfortable section of society that refuses to acknowledge this. Their politics are a reflection of the “ideological discipline” their middle-class jobs expect from them. We need to do much better. Last week I spent a few hours with the book “Disciplined Minds”, by Jeff Schmidt. I listened to it, read by Lyn Gerry, on the radio show “Unwelcome Guests”, back in 2009. The book, published in the year 2000, examines how professionals come to think the way they do, and the ideology they perpetuate while carrying out their jobs. (see quote at the end of this post) When I first encountered…
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Keep Busy with Survival
Perhaps all you can say about this year is that you kept busy with survival. And that's a good narrative on its own.
