Awareness Experiment
Awareness is a gift. We don’t know if all creatures on earth have awareness, but we do know that humans do. We even have the ability to be aware of the fact that we’re aware. We don’t always seem to...
View ArticleStuff
What is our obsession with “stuff”? Why do we want it and think that we need it? Once we have the stuff we want we often lose interest in it, but still find it difficult to part with. We also...
View ArticleWonderfully Insignificant
“Here we are, like mites on a plum, and the plum is this little planet and it goes around an insignificant local star, the sun, and that star is on the obscure outskirts of an ordinary galaxy, the...
View ArticleVoyage into the Unkown
In six weeks I will get on a train with a one-way ticket to Vancouver. It’s a journey that has only been a few short months in the making and a decision that has already changed my life in numerous...
View ArticlePlanning For Loneliness
This is a post for the single, the lonely, the eager-to-find-love. I’ve been there, I’ve been one of you, some days I still am. Most days, though, I am content with my single status. It hurts me to...
View ArticleEverything Is Now, Unquantified
The other day, a friend of mine was telling me about a documentary he had seen about the Pirahã Tribe in Brazil. They have no concept of time or numbers, they have no written history, and there is no...
View ArticleLove In The Time Of Timers
I watched Timer on Netflix the other night, expecting a bit of fluff to wind down with. Indeed, it’s a bit fluffy, but it also raises some really good questions, especially in the age of online dating,...
View ArticleWhat do you need?
The biggest lesson I took away from studying Buddhism in my 20′s was that suffering comes from desire and attachment. I learned that wanting things you didn’t have would make you very unhappy. Studying...
View ArticleSpammers Getting Desperate
I was quite surprised to receive an email from the FBI this morning, informing me that if I didn’t send them money I’d be arrested and jailed for life. Obviously they have the wrong girl, I’m a...
View ArticleClosure, Change, and Continuums
Is closure ever possible and do people really change? As an optimist, and aspiring psychologist, I like to believe that the answer is “yes” for both. The thought of us all waking around, gaping wounds...
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