Human domestication. Being civilized: this word that sounds very positive, and in so many ways is. We have this wonderful system that we live within that provides unimagined, unimaginable in earlier times levels of safety, security. A whole framework for living our lives in which we don’t have to worry about basic survival. As long […]
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The Santa Claus disappointment. We’ve all had that moment when we learned, one way or another, that Santa Claus isn’t real. And it was a moment of shock and surprise, and kind of it’s disappointing. It’s like wow, I believed in this magical thing, but actually it was just my parents pretending that there’s this
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When in doubt, simplify. I like to remind myself of this phrase, because it seems so easy to let things just get too complicated. This kind of like sighing in exasperation, “Ah, it’s so complicated. Life is so complicated. There’s just so much going on. I’m overwhelmed.” This feeling of overwhelm. I mean, we’ve all
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When it comes to my daily routine, often I find the most difficult part for me right now is the evening, going to sleep, shutting everything down in a way that works and it gets me ready for the next day. Because every part of our day except sleeping, it seems like we have some
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