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Hedonic Adaptation: The Happiness Grinder

Hedonic Adaptation: The Happiness Grinder

Listen, happiness is a slimy creature. It will slip between your fingers, no matter how tightly you make a fist.  You can build walls around it, but walls will eventually crack, and soon enough happiness will seep out, like water dripping from a faulty plumbline....

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The Meaning of Our Bodies

The Meaning of Our Bodies

"How problematic to have both a body and a mind, for the former stands in almost monstrous contrast to the latter’s dignity and intelligence. Our bodies smell, ache, sag, pulse, throb, and age. They force us to fart and burp, and to abandon sensible plans to lie in...

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On Nature’s Solo Travellers

On Nature’s Solo Travellers

There is something meditative about the silence of single-occupancy hotel rooms. A top floor window facing out to a limitless sky,  and the thoroughfare of clouds, some smokey gray, some salmon pink, a few orange-rimmed, and an occasional one with a silver lining...

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I think the world is not all changed……
It glitters whether we’re looking or not.

– Maggie SmithÂ