So looking out my window at the green tree: now I’m thinking about the late summer feeling. So I looked at that feeling when summer arrives, that peak of midsummer, and then there’s that “dog days of summer”, that heat wave feeling, the siesta of the year, that feeling of just being immobilized by the […]

When it comes to this whole meaning of life thing, looking at my life, trying to make a better life, trying to improve my life, what will I do with this life? It seems like it’s very easy to look at it as being like it’s this one thing, like it’s one piece. “This is

When it comes to this idea of creating your life, making it art, using your life as some kind of design, making it into some kind of art, one of the tools that I really like to use is the calendar. A calendar takes days and sort of designs them and arranges them into some

I’m sure we’re all used to hearing that standard line that every day is a new day, so no matter what happened in the past, we can start fresh with every day. And of course, natural reaction against it, well, you know, everything in the past went into putting me into this position that I

What are our limits? How are we limited? What are the edges of what we can do? How do we find them? In some ways, in one way of looking at it, we could see ourselves as unlimited, because we don’t know where the borders are of what we could do. Because we don’t know

One thing’s for sure, that we all want things. We all want a lot of things. And what does it mean to want something? It’s like we’re craving this end state, this state of having achieved what we want, and we want to feel better by achieving that end state. So this idea of wanting:

So sometimes we feel full, sometimes we feel empty. And what does that even mean? What is this metaphor? It must be some kind of metaphor because, obviously we’re not full or empty physically speaking. You know, we still have blood and everything inside us, and we’re not actually “empty” of anything. So what does

This universe is so big, so full of mystery, mystery beyond what we know, and even of the things we do know, so much about them is mysterious. There are wonders that are explained and they’re still wonderful, and there are wonders that we have no idea how to explain. And beyond all of that,

What is it about this universe? sometimes it feels like this amazing, wonderful place, a playground, a paradise, a hall of wonders. Everything is just so amazing and unbelievable. It’s unbelievable that any of this exists at all, and why is it the way it is? Why is there so much out there? Why is

Sometimes it feels like there’s a battle going on between want to and should. So there are things that I feel like I should do, this is what I’m supposed to do, and then there are other things that I would rather be doing. And so we see that learning discipline means that we’re then