This blog is about being happy. In fact, all blogs are about being happy. Actually, everything we write, say, do and aspire to is to be happy and to support other people to be happy (I think that is what love is?). I have some qualms with the goal of happiness as I think it…
Edgar D. Mitchell was an astronaut on the Apollo XIV mission. In the documentary, In the Shadow of the Moon (2007), he spoke of the fleeting sense of connection he experienced with the cosmic dust that surrounded their spacecraft: The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window, every two minutes: The…
Once, during a therapy session, I was talking through a recent experience with Dr. A. There was a pause on her end. Not the intentional kind, when a good therapist wants to allows space for a feeling to come to surface or for a new insight to sink in; but rather the pause of a…
Let’s talk about love. In her book, ‘All About Love‘, bell hook’s defines love as: “Love is the will to extend one’s self for the the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth”. My interpretation of this is that love is simultaneously a fuzzy feeling, a more concrete intention and a tangible act of…
Attention – a concentration of the mind on a single object or thought, especially one preferentially selected from a complex, with a view to limiting or clarifying receptivity by narrowing the range of stimuli. The Bottom Line Up Front *The practice of paying attention to a singular task, activity or person isn’t just a scarce economical…
My good friend P is a trust-fund kid. That is to say, they inherited a bunch of money that they didn’t expressly desire, and as a consequence they never have to do any work for financial reasons. Let it be known that P does do work that is either for the greater good and/or they enjoy, has…
First, some numbers to convince you that I am qualified to write on the topic of poor-quality marathon training:– I began to commit all of my athletic energies to running in 2021.– Since then, I have signed up to approximately four full-marathons and a scattering of half-marathons in Colorado.– Of those race registrations, I have…
There are many people I have met, either coincidentally or by design (read – a dating app), with whom I am on hugging terms by the end of the first encounter. This does not hold for work colleagues. Work colleagues are a particular category of acquaintance we keep a forced emotional distance from, despite spending…
Original version posted on a private blog I share with a friend on the 20th of February, 2023, written in that transient period spent in an airport during transit. Once, generations that came before us left Ireland out of necessity. In the case of many, there was nothing here for them in terms of employment.…