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February 16 - March 21, 2019
The world felt senseless. I felt helpless. I was scared. I had been extraordinarily privileged to have ever felt otherwise. There were those who had felt helpless and scared for a long time coming, and I had ignored them.
unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true,
what is Donald Trump, if not terrified?
It’s always unfinished business.
We live in a time when neither our facts nor our feelings are trustworthy, but feelings sometimes seem to have the upper hand because they are felt, are a part of us, belong to us. And the world feels scarier. That is a fact.
Maybe I read into my horoscope what I needed to hear. Great, I buoyed my own mood, my own “spirits.” Good for me!
From Gilgamesh’s story to the philosophy of Aristotle to Nietzsche, everyone is trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
The more we attempt to dodge pain, the more pain we invite onto our path.
And why do we care whether or not our future is better? Because believing our future is good makes us feel better right now. So going to see a psychic is not actually about the future at all. It’s about the present. It’s the quick, instant fix we’re after.
we lost a tremendous amount when Trump was inaugurated. Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey and Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor and John Hockenberry and Charlie Rose and many more came to light in 2017, this story finally being told and so aggressively, because we were channeling our Trump outrage through these other men.
Should I stay or should I go? It’s the ultimate bourgeois nonproblem problem. It’s self-created uncertainty.
I’m going to let go of getting what I want.”
it is my experience that the shorter the menu, the better the food.)
“The more you think about these matters the farther you are from the truth. Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can’t go.”
It’s rare that we truly don’t know what to do. Most of the time we know exactly what to do; it’s just not the choice we want to make.
born and raised in Sacramento, California.
“the US is experiencing a deep epistemic breach, a split not just in what we value or want, but in who we trust, how we come to know things, and what we believe we know—what we believe exists, is true, has happened, and is happening.”
there is nothing wrong with faiths. Only the faithful.
