Aug
21
anatman
In March and April, I’d dream that we had come to the lake, and in my dreams I’d
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Feb
07
cracks in the labyrinth
In the episode “Where There Is a Will” of This American Life, producer David Kestenbaum wrestles with the possibility that
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Jan
24
the garden of forking paths
This Tuesday at last I got my hands on a book I had waited years to read: Agency, the sequel
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Sep
27
tbr
When I told a friend that I long to create a spacious container (i.e., an orderly home and routines)
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Sep
06
paying attention to dreams
Long ago, before I took up Zen practice, I considered taking up witchcraft. Old longings stirred in me as I
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Aug
30
staying on topic
I started reading Pattern Recognition last Thursday evening and finished reading Zero History, the last novel in the Blue Ant
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Aug
23
feeling my way out of the miasma
The heading that opens the second chapter of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, “Start by discarding,
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