a review of Wintering by Katherine May
Every now and then I would browse the new arrivals section of the national library’s e-book collection. I was surprised to discover quite a few interesting books there, books that I wouldn’t…
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remembering forgotten lessons and selves
I often go into rabbit holes of my own content. The other day, I was tweeting why I am making the painstaking effort to add metadata to my online library, and I…
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I write one of these every year. I read last year’s and was slightly amused how serious I sounded. But this is typical of me, I oscillate between thinking I take myself…
if I die
Nobody knows (with very rare exceptions) when our time on this earth will come to an end. Most of us are not very conscious of this. I think about death a lot…
Life is absurd
sometimes there is just no justification or meaning
What I learned from cultivating self-compassion
on the relationship between self-compassion and compassion for other people
Lessons & takeaways from 6 months of experimenting with my life
I don’t think I have ever felt better. Better, not because of any sense of exhilaration or progress, but better in terms of how I feel and where I am. This is just the mid-year…
Piecing myself together after burnout
The process of finding the root cause and addressing it