When I opened my meditation app this morning, I was greeted by a new icon in the upper right corner: a butterfly with a red dot. Assuming, correctly, that this was a notification of some kind, I tapped it and discovered that my meditation app is rebranding itself and redesigning itself, with new features. New …
Category: Thoughts
The Happy Box
I used to hate election day. The stress of figuring out where my polling place was; navigating the gauntlet of an unfamiliar, busy, and crowded situation; and it always took much longer than I thought it would, which meant I was late to my job. Since I believed my job was so important and that …
Last Day on Earth
Recently, I have been following an online meditation series through the meditation app I use. Initially I downloaded the app just for a timer with an occasional chime - so much better than using the timer on my phone that either rings with a horrible tone or, mysteriously, declines to ring at all, just ticking …
Why Are We Here?
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 …
Finding the Possible
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 …