Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about some of the better escapes I’ve been enjoying in posts about “shoe gaze” music and “gourmet cheeseburger” TV, but after having these experiences and telling others about them, I always … [Continue reading]
When you’ve lived in a place a long time, you accumulate.There are all kinds of reasons for valuing something enough that you’ve kept it around. But one downside of this was revealed to me last winter when relatively warm days were followed by a … [Continue reading]
I really don’t want anything more to worry about than I’m worrying about already. But like you, deep in the reptilian part of my brain I’m alert to threats even though (much of the time) there’d be comfort in being oblivious to them … [Continue reading]
I’ve been finding lately that the biggest obstacle to feeling the common beat is other people.It’s just easier to imagine sharing the rhythm and release—that universal correspondence environmentalists always wax-on about—when it’s all of … [Continue reading]
I suppose it’s good that I’m surprised by what I don’t know almost as often as I am by what seems to have escaped other people. “Ignorant” is a kind of general, all-encompassing category when you’re describing somebody. I … [Continue reading]
