(from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton)
Where to go
Somewhere along the line, this blog has lost a sense of direction.
I’d appreciate any thoughts on where it should go or what posts have been the high points.
The Power of Irreversible Decisions
It is easy to see why we of the industrialized world love return policies and money-back guarantees. We are a culture of cautious, risk-averse, thoroughly insured thinkers. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliberate ourselves to the absolute best possible choice. We are paralyzed with fear lest the fifty dollar automatic apple slicer we [...]
Relaxation
When I am feeling relaxed, and I drive down the rough, pothole-ridden streets of Chicago in my bouncy little white Honda Civic, I can feel the most minute ridges and dips in the road as they resonate through my entire body.
“Slow down. Hold still. It’s not as if it’s a matter of will.”
One of my insights from six months of daily 30-mile highway commutes was that most of the time we overestimate how much time we will save by going faster. In the mornings sometimes I watch myself and others hurl ourselves towards the train station, the office, the elevator at breakneck paces, as though we can [...]
Snow
Once in a while, I look at snow and it suddenly hits me how strange it is that a precise combination of weather conditions causes this shower of white ice crystals to float down from the sky—how bizarre it is to have huge piles of it crowding up roads and parking lots. I wonder what [...]
Traveling
Posts will appear on Monday or before.
Bifurcation
Lately I’ve been craving a bit more focus for this blog. When I began it, the blog had a much more distinct focus, which was achieving fulfillment in every single twenty-four hour period; now it’s more of a collection of random thoughts. My thoughts run in tons of often unrelated directions, and gathering them together [...]