This post below (and the title) is NOT written by me. It is written by Oliver Burkeman, the author of the sensational book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Oliver's writing is beautiful and penetrating, and it highlights, in such a warm and wonderful way, our vulnerability
I came across this quote yesterday and wanted to share it with you: "It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope
I recently had an afflatus. An afflatus is not a fart. An afflatus is "a sudden divine-like inspiration." Whether what you are about to read is an afflatus or not is up to you, but it felt like one this morning while it came to me as I
On June 12th, 2012, I was released from my incarceration at Hazelden rehab center in Center City, Minnesota, after being convicted as an addict and sent there for the 3-month physician program. Walking in the front door was, well, weird and very awkward. I suspect that my transition back home,