Here and There It feels as if this is all of life: That we rush out to “there,” rather than being “here,” because somehow we are afraid of losing what is “here” if we’re not focused on “there.” Yet when we focus on “there,” we have already lost “here.” At the beginning of this year, I did a rune reading […]
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The Reverse Midlife Crisis That Changed Everything Around my 40th birthday, I had what I can only call a reverse midlife crisis. I woke up one day and realized I was living a life I never actually chose. At the tender age of 20, I had made one misaligned decision after another, reacting instead of
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It’s Mother’s Day 2025, and the social media posts I appreciate most are the ones that acknowledge how complex this day can be for those who have mothers, are mothers, wanted to be mothers, never wanted to be mothers, or lost their mothers. In other words… everyone I know. I have a mother I cherished,
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This morning I woke up. Sun was spilling through my open window and I could here the birds loud and clear. I quickly realized that my plans to wake up at 5am and get crack’n were already foiled. I immediately started to feel frustrated and overwhelmed as I remembered all that I wanted to accomplish
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There’s a path you alone can walk, and solo travel is a perfect way to explore what that means to you. I just returned from a four-day solo trip to the Wichita Wildlife Refuge. My very first solo-ish journey was back in 2017, when I met a friend in Iceland for the weekend and then
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We’ve all been taught that you are supposed to put your needs before your wants. Eat your vegetables before dessert. Save your money instead of splurging on something frivolous. Finish your homework before indulging in mindless entertainment. The message is clear: discipline first, enjoyment later. While this is a sensible approach to life, I think
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The In-Between: The Goo Before the Wings Did you know that when a caterpillar enters a cocoon, its body turns into a kind of organic soup? That ten-dollar word—metamorphosis—so often used to describe the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is as profound as it sounds. The molecules that once formed the crawling creature completely disassemble
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