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Washing the dishes

I read THE MIRACLE OF MINDFULNESS by Thich Nhat Hanh this week. The whole book hit hard, but this passage in particular is stuck in my mind: Wash the dishes…
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A small, strange personal project

Twenty eight years ago I sat on this sidewalk with a bunch of film school friends waiting for a movie. I remember that vividly as a tiny, glorious moment when…
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The State of Social Media

When I was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1990s, with no internet or cell phones, we communicated through a thing called pigeon post, where you dropped off…
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Learn to say no

I drew this card as a reminder for myself a couple of years ago, and every few months I have to pull it out and stare at it for a…
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Shredder

My home shredder overheats after ten minutes of use, displays a red light, and shuts down. Lot of respect for and much to learn from this enforcement of personal boundaries.
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Minecraft and COVID

I think about this article a lot and feel pretty good about the amount of Minecraft I played when I had COVID in 2020 in the first wave in NYC.…
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Your one wild and precious life

Watercolored drawing by Greg Pak. I think a lot about Mary Oliver's poem "The Summer Day" and its stunning last two lines: Tell me, what is it you plan to…