A few weeks ago, I wrote about the cycles of history. How we - the human race - are racing through time, not in a linear progression that gradually climbs up up up, but in cycles. We face huge pandemics that cause the economy to constrict or cause nations to try to expand, to get …
One of the things that made pandemic isolation so traumatic for some people is that they are the people who tend to set limitations on themselves. (I am one of these people so I speak from experience.) If you are someone whose general tendency is to say, I can’t do that because… then pandemic isolation …
Yesterday, I finally faced down fear and bought a new phone. The old phone - assigned to me in 2015, I believe - was on its last legs. It had so little memory that, every time I needed to download a new app, I had to delete an old app. And, every time I told …
You Better Get Your Shit Together When I realize that I am, once again, lying in bed, chewing on my shroud, a rap song often comes into my mind with a chorus that goes something like this: 5 o’clock in the morning, where you gonna be(male voices, sullenly:) Out on the cornerYou better get yourself …
I am. Every morning, I wake up at 3 a.m. Sometimes I am able to use meditation techniques to stop ruminating. Sometimes, my mind is racing so much that I can’t stop it, and I toss and turn until the alarm goes off at 4:45. The worst part of this is that my cat senses …
