Tag: life
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Biological Terms Every Writer Should Steal
What can biology teach us about love, identity, transformation, and the human condition? Twelve extraordinary scientific terms offer writers a whole new vocabulary for exploring life’s oldest mysteries.
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THE TWELVE CONCEPTS
For People Who Would Rather Be at a Step Meeting Part Two: Now We Have to Live in the Thing (Concepts 7-12) Link to Part 1 By the end of Concept VI, Bill has accomplished something fairly remarkable. He has taken a Fellowship full of people with an understandable suspicion of authority and built a…
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The Twelve Concepts for People Who Would Rather Be at a Step Meeting
I would rather be at a Step meeting. But beneath the committees, trustees, Conferences, and service structure of A.A.’s Twelve Concepts, Bill W. was writing about something much more interesting: power. Who gets it, how we share it, how we restrain it, and how a bunch of alcoholics learn to trust one another with it.
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Your Immune System is an Absolute Bitch on Wheels
Your immune system is violent, discerning, occasionally spectacularly wrong—and absolutely necessary. Meet the cells that protect you, destroy threats, sound alarms, remember enemies, and teach us something surprisingly profound about boundaries: health isn’t endless peace. It’s knowing when to respond—and when to stand down.
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Lichen: Believe the Hype- It’s that fascinating.
I thought I was learning the difference between moss and lichen. Instead, I uncovered one of biology’s strangest stories—a partnership so successful it blurs the line between one organism and many, and quietly asks one of philosophy’s oldest questions.
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I Always Knew the Snake Was Necessary
For years, the pressure felt like part of me. The tension. The urgency. The constant hum beneath everything. Then one day it was gone. I kept looking for it, certain I had misplaced something essential. What I discovered instead was a truth both terrifying and liberating: I had mistaken adaptation for identity.
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Before Sophia: The Strange Architecture of Heaven
What if we become real only through participation?
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Finding Clarity: What to Do… When You Don’t Know What to Do
What if clarity isn’t something you force? Explore the relationship between attention, surrender, perception, and spiritual alignment through the symbols of the road, the dolphin, and the horizon.
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Maudlin Guilt: When Suffering Becomes Ego Worship
Sometimes guilt becomes less about accountability and more about self-absorption. Real humility doesn’t endlessly worship suffering. It acknowledges harm, seeks repair, and rejoins life.
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How Chronic Executive Control Quietly Exhausts the Mind
Some people move through life with an internal manager that never clocks out. Even during quiet moments, part of the mind remains active — organizing tomorrow, revisiting yesterday, evaluating the self in real time. This reflective neuroscience-informed essay explores executive functioning, chronic self-monitoring, burnout, flow states, and what happens when the mind finally loosens its…
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We
What if happiness doesn’t come from focusing more on yourself, but less? A reflection on ego, community, service, and the surprising peace found in “we.”
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The Doorway You Entered Through
The patterns we repeat often began long before we understood them. A thoughtful exploration of childhood conditioning, self-awareness, manifestation, emotional survival strategies, and the quiet courage of questioning the stories we inherited.
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My Punk Kid Hero
When self-protection comes out as rage. This is my personal experience and insight in loving my inner punk kid hero.
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The Organism That Remembers Without a Brain
Slime mold has no brain, no neurons, and no identity—yet it remembers, learns, and solves problems. This deep dive explores one of the strangest organisms on Earth and what it reveals about how we integrate experience.
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Morning Rituals for Spiritual Abundance
Morning rituals to take care of your presence so you can then take care of everything else.
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Reframing Success: Why Humility Matters
Success is not incongruent with humility. In fact, humility is important for sustained success.
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Spiritually Nostalgic and Subtle Message T-Shirts
My favorite subtle, cool, spiritual, easy to wear t-shirts.
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Make Your Home a Sanctuary: Easy Style Changes
Bring calm and serenity into your sanctuary with a few easy style tips and arrangements.
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High-Vibration Jewelry Picks that Align for Spiritual Growth
Adorn your temple with what brings you peace.