Love Coffee — but not like that
Coffee does much more than get us through the day (or night), but it can't be rushed.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
How we react to someone’s behaviour has a lot to do with the stories we tell ourselves. How can we tell better stories?
Mulan: Love Across Cultures
Some 20 years after Disney's animated Mulan release, my thoughts on the movie have changed.
Learning from Used Books
Used books, like the used and repair economies in general, call into question the value of production for production's sake.
Music & Melancholy
Music has a profound ability to shape our experience of the world.
Finding Myself in the Stacks
The shaping power of my little library goes beyond the suggestion to bury myself in Dostoevsky. The library is my life history collected across volumes; these are the ideas and stories that have formed me.
Buildings, Rooms, and Anton Ego
When you’re largely stuck indoors, even the building next door becomes special. And I see how this house blocks the sun, how it abuts the little walkway between our buildings that makes me feel cramped and unwelcome. No wonder I rarely step through here.
Another Dream for the Home Compost Heap
There are days I think it would be easier if I wasn’t such a hopeful person. It wouldn’t hurt so much if I didn’t have such strong desires. If I could just be nonchalant about outcomes.
Love Takes Time
Relationships are a natural and essential part of being human. Because they happen naturally, it's very easy to take relationships for granted. Our culture of busyness doesn't help.
Weighing Our Troubles Rightly
Jen Pollock Michel reflects on the need to right-size our suffering. To make a practice of seeing it clearly and proportionally. To regularly seek to understand stories that are different from our own.