questforameaningfullife

I have a generally low opinion of any kind of professional critics, professional art reviewers, who will look at some kind of piece of art and then judge whether they consider it to be good or not. And of course, nothing wrong with an opinion. In fact, there’s nothing wrong with what they say. My […]

You know, so many of us, it seems like so much of our mental world, the way that we experience the world, is influenced by stories. We have all these stories, especially movies, TV, books, we have all these great stories that, you know, people really get into, and we fill our minds with all

I have now officially reached my limit. I have nothing new to say about this pandemic lockdown situation. At first, I didn’t even want to say anything at all about it to begin with, because it’s such a transient thing that is gonna come and go. And you know, who’s gonna want to hear about

So much about minimalism focuses on the things, of course, the minimalism of space, the minimalism of objects, having as little as possible, having a spatial environment that’s as simple as possible. But I find that even more interesting than this is looking at minimalism in the time dimension, looking at our time the way

It seems like another one of the disturbing things about what’s going on is just that we seem to have really imagined ourselves as being taken care of. We live in this highly protected, highly carefully managed, orderly environment, where we have so many complex systems that are basically outside our personal control, but that

Sometimes I think what I talk about here is just too simple. I mean, why even say it? But it does seem like so many of the things that really matter are very simple, and so many of the things that are really helpful are very simple. And really, one of the simplest and most

Can you imagine just being able to sit, maybe look out the window, maybe just be there, and be happy? Such a simple thing, but it seems like it’s not easy to be in that state. It almost sounds like you have to be some kind of a Shaolin master to be able to be

A very common and completely understandable reaction to all this business is “I just can’t wait for it to be over. I am just going to sit tight and wait for it all to be over.” And you know, first reaction to that is OK, makes total sense, because what else are you going to

Something that I’ve really been enjoying doing these days is always looking for a way to simplify. Now, it seems to me that life really is very simple. We don’t need very much in order to live. And so much gets spun out in the complexity of all the things that can possibly be added,

Well, enjoying the last chance for a little bit of snow here in April, and my thought for today is that one of the upsides of all this: there are so many things that really aren’t that important, and it’s so easy for them to fill up all our time. But whenever something serious happens,