Month: September 2026
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Oh boy. Do I? Yes. I gaslight my “inner knowing.” Far more often than I would like to admit. First, let me explain what I mean by this phrase. As I grew up, as we all grow up, we have an “inner knowing” that points us in a direction. This direction may lead us to…
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Ed. Note: This article may bring up difficult feelings. If you are in crisis, please get support at https://988lifeline.org/. I’ve been sitting a lot with my grief recently. I’ve been having trouble identifying the exact source of it, so I just keep gently asking myself, “where is this coming from?” It has taken years to…
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I don’t have a better title for this article than the one that inspired it. I’m also not sure I have a lot to say beyond the article, except that this is my favorite line from it: “living is always ceasing to be yourself and becoming something else” https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/how-i-would-like-to-live
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Because it’s fun Yesterday, I was talking with my son about trampolining, and I was saying how I was glad he was jumping on the trampoline to get exercise, and then he said, “And because it’s fun.” At the time, I thought nothing of it. This morning, it landed in me, and it landed harder…