Happiness: Where We Go Wrong
If we want to be happy, we have to lower our expectations. Life will not be a never-ending winning streak. It wasn’t designed to be.
My Life Was Fine. That Was the Problem.
Today, it’s not our jobs but our personal lives that keep us from renewing our minds. The burden is daily life in the kind of places built around ever-multiplying HOAs, athleisure, and strip malls. I was living in one of them.
Who’s Behind The Wall?
The banging started again at 3:30 a.m. It shook the wall. Earlier that morning, I’d emailed the manager about the 9:30 p.m. banging. I had thought seriously about calling the police.
The Year We Think We Have
Three million people passed away last year. They were nine, and thirty-three, and your age. They died of cancer and in car accidents on their way home. They died of hopeless desperation and from nervous exhaustion after trying too hard, for too long, to please everyone. They died in a Turkish hotel fire on vacation
The Power of Music – 2025 the playlist
2025 The Playlist – Apple Music 2025 The Playlist – Spotify
Stop Trying To Know Everything
Existence unfolds far beyond the boundary of my body or anything I can claim as mine. It is composed of surprises, good and bad. It’s a true mystery — half the record is redacted.