I read Visakan Veerasamy's idea of "making your own desire paths" as a way of chewing the shadow by finding cheap ways to act on one's velleities. A few months back, I reread David Chapman's post Hunting the shadow, and at the
I notice a silly pattern with respect to how I've been capturing, triaging, and checking off action items. It goes like this. First, I feel overwhelmed with all the open loops I have—it seems impossible to keep up with them all. At some point, I remember I
(Experiment idea. I have not tried this (yet). You may be abducted by space leeches. You have been warned.) Consider writing "blog post-letters" for a small private audience of sympathetic people. That is: Friends, family, lovers. Working through thoughts and feelings in writing is great. While you'
I have too many books. I have a full bookshelf that also has two or three extra piles of books beyond the ones that are arranged on the shelf "properly," standing up. Some I'm hoping to read soon. Some I've already read and I
Our puppy (11 months old border collie) seems best-behaved when I take him for a walk once every two hours instead of "on-demand." He pulls on the leash less and obeys commands more quickly. When we walk him on-demand—when we wait for him to bark—he seems