Press Pause on the Anxiety for a Moment
Someone told me yesterday, “I feel like a tiger is chasing me and I’m just sitting on the couch.” I related to that. Deeply. About six months…
Social and Self-Help
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Soylent Green for Everyone
It seems that I’m writing an inordinate number of essays about movies that I’m currently watching. And I normally don’t even watch movies because there’s never quite…
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Herding Cats
I’ve spent the last couple of years trying to get humans to do something that, in theory, should be easy: come together… as a community. A simple…
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How to Change Direction When Life Goes Sideways
I’m currently watching the Harry Potter movies for the first time. I just finished the second one, and at the end, Professor Dumbledore tells Harry: It’s not…
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Your Inner Hero Is Bored — Let It Out
We need heroes. And I don’t mean the spandex-wearing kind. I mean the regular sort; the ones who don’t even realize they’re heroes yet. Because whether we…
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Enough Was Always Enough (We Just Forgot)
You know that nagging voice that always comes while you’re sitting on the couch being taunted by your phone, the one that says “buy just one more…
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What’s Wrong With The “Really Really Free Market” Movement (it’s not the movement)
The “really really free market” movement – this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Someone, someone with a heart for community, organizes an event…
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Could You Survive Prosperity?
There’s an old Puritan adage that goes something like this: Ninety-nine percent of people can go through adversity and not lose their faith, but only one percent…
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Here We Go; Somewhat Reluctant Financial Idealism
What if we all decided to stop over-consuming? I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately. And for me to think about it, it must be pretty…
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The Two Kinds of Gifts
There are two kinds of gifts. The first is given without strings attached; no expectation of return, no mental ledger keeping. The second comes with more of…