“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.” A handful of times a lifetime, if you are lucky, an experience opens a trapdoor in your psyche with its almost unbearable beauty and strangeness, its discomposing unlikeness to anything you have known before. Down, down you go into the depths of the unconscious, dark and…
“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.” Most people live with a great deal more suffering than is visible to even the most proximate and sensitive onlooker. Many have survived things both unimaginable and invisible to the outside world. This has been the case since the dawn of…
The unprecedented Europe-wide June heatwave has fanned the debate about the eco-credentials of air conditioning. Many believe that widespread adoption of the technology would be irresponsible, if not immoral, as the energy it burns would contribute to just the problem it is trying to mitigate. Thinking clearly about the issue is made difficult by the…
Weekend Wisdom: If you don’t have time for what matters, stop doing the things that don’t. I have the creative energy of a sloth right now. I say that without researching how much creative energy a sloth… The post building a tiny home + overwhelmed with digital clutter appeared first on Be More with Less….
As I am writing this, same sex marriage is legal in the United States and in 2025 the supreme court declined to revisit the gay marriage decision. But as Roe v Wade was overturned, it is wise to consider that there is no such thing as settled law. While I am a divorced straight…
