The Life Sublime
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....
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...
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...
The Evergreen Beauty of the Periwinkle
"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;And ’tis my faith that every flowerEnjoys the air it breathes." -William Wordsworth If the periwinkle were people, they would be shy and unassuming. The kind of men and women who are...
Cogito Ergo Sum
"Cogito Ergo Sum"-Rene Decartes Rene Descartes' funky catchphrase has remained viral over centuries. It has found its place everywhere from roomful of scholars to the back of Indie T-shirts and Coffee mugs. "I think, therefore I am." Our unique footprint on this...