As hard as it is to implement, I like how Portuguese makes the difference between ser (“to be”) and estar (“to find oneself in a state of”).

How often do you hold space for the grief you experience when you lose a part of yourself? Sometimes we consciously upgrade who we are, yet in the process, we ignore that not everything about the old ...

It’s been hip for a while to go against the hustle culture, but usually, the people who advocate that are people who have already sold their businesses for fuck-you money, who are already very financi...

When I started my Little Things series back in December 2023, I did so on Instagram because I knew that sharing it publicly would keep me accountable.

One of the hardest things about living with an invisible condition is needing to decide multiple times a day, every day again, how you’ll respond to the question: “How are you?”

The thing about life is that it happens, that we can never unhappen it. Even forgiveness, for all its elemental power, can never bend the arrow of time, can only ever salve the hole it makes in the heart. Despair, which visits upon everyone fully alive, is simply the reflexive tremor of resignation in the face of life’s irremediable happening. “There is no love of life without despair of life,” Albert Camus wrote — a simple equation, the mathematics of which we spend our lives learning. Consolation is the abacus on which we learn it — this small and mighty… read article

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more and asking better questions - and a romp through science in search of a good "wow!" you can feel right down to your boots. Click to read Everything Is Amaz...

The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly colliding with reality, with the indifference of time and chance, with the opposing hopes and longings of others. We have, of course, always invented institutions of salvation — religion to save us from our sins, therapy to save us from our traumas, marriage to save us from our loneliness — in order to salve our… read article