I love metaphors for life. Sailing a ship. Running a country. And one that seems to work really well is gardening. Having a garden. There’s so many ways in which that seems to capture a lot of what’s going on with life. This idea of we have this space and it’s somewhere in the middle […]

Fighting for peace. As soon as I hear that, I think of old-time propaganda. Trying to declare war while still seeming like the good guy, you can say “We’re fighting this war because we want peace, and the other guys, they’re the ones that want war, so we have to beat them so we can

Walking is the new sitting. Now, this may be confusing, because we’ve all heard that sitting is the new smoking. So I’m not saying that walking is the new smoking. I’m thinking about meditation. I think about that classic image, when we think of meditation, we think of sitting in a lotus position, cross-legged position,

Sturgeon’s Law: “90% of everything is crud.” Often now quoted as crap. Crud, crap: whatever negative word you want. Garbage, low quality. 90% of everything. This was started by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, although many authors have said this throughout history, but he’s the one who got his name attached to it. A science

So we have this baseline state, this imagined scenario of “What would I do if I had no problems?” However we want to enjoy life, whatever we want to do with life, if we didn’t have to solve the problems that crop up along the way. And for me, I like to imagine walking in

We 21st century people seem to have a bottomless hunger for entertainment. We just want to be entertained, and taken on an exciting journey, and we want to be fed exciting, stimulating things, seemingly at all times. We are so heavily stimulated that it’s even hard to imagine just sitting down and listening to the

What would you do if you didn’t have any problems? It seems like it’s so easy just to go day by day, solving problem after problem, and there always seem to be new problems coming up. And it’s not every day that I even think about, well, what would I actually do if I didn’t

Why don’t wonderful things make us happy? When I was a kid, I dreamed of a TV watch I love this idea. I was going to have, in the future, a watch that would have a little TV screen on it, so I could watch TV from anywhere. And back in the 80s and 90s,

I got a comment saying quite simply that life is boring. And not just because video games are more fun, but just that life overall is boring. And I responded that well, of course, in the pandemic, in the lockdown, it’s understandable to feel a little bit extra bored, because so much of what we

Another factor when it comes to this prison of positivity is the idea of inflation. So just like the idea in economics, if there’s more money floating around, prices will tend to be higher, because each dollar will be less significant. If you imagine there’s only one million dollars in the entire world, I mean,