Parents send kids off to college. CEOs retire. Champions hand trophies to winners of the next round. Actors play their role’s final scene. When your day is done, do you remember that you’ve ended the arc of a character in a play, but that it’s not the end for you? It’s so obvious that we…

I noticed some friends getting into influencers who talk about living a minimal lifestyle. I’m all about this, but watching their content I found an issue — a surface understanding of minimalism that in the end leads to a rigid, unsustainable way of life. When minimalism resembles a diet plan, you know something has gone…

Culture seems to follow the instructions of my favorite yoga instructors: In any pose they may say, “Stretch in opposite directions! Feel the length along your spine, all the way from the tips of your toes to the soles of your feet.” Doesn’t this dictate of oppositional stretching resemble a dance of opposites we see…

Driving down the highway, I passed a billboard featuring a cheerful image: a quaint Chapel Hill bakery, two lovely sweet rolls perched invitingly in the foreground. But a closer look revealed that the sign was advertising something else entirely—the “Favorite Sausage Restaurant of the Southwest.” The sausages are drawn to look sweet rolls. A few…

When I pass through a certain place in life, it feels like an atmosphere, like the cloud cover between earth and sky. I notice things living there, making up the weight of the fog, like debris in an asteroid belt. They pull at each other with their own gravity and create a net of the…

A new day and the day of pot and the bunny and the cross collide — what will happen today? Like any other day, no one knows Despite many garden-party, egg-hunting, mj-smoking plans, risk assessments, wisdom of sunday routines, stable systems, and even with chaos accounted for — it can all go wrong, or right…