Look at you: You are no accident.
Your face: the eyes…the line of your nose; that lickerish mouth, one moment tight with fear, overtaken the next by fountainous laughter … Always faces, tens of thousands across a career, each one made...
View ArticleRiding Metro North. Seat Selection Psychology.
I’ve noticed. It’s happened enough times, to notice. Is it only me that notices these things? Typically off peak trains. I’m early. I take the window seat, in a three seater. Always a 3-seater. Always...
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Good Morning, Monster
Making psychological changes also provokes anxiety. It’s very hard to break a habit, especially when you’ve adapted yourself to a particular pattern that, however maladaptive, has kept you alive. The...
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Walking. With Billy Summers.
67° F. Cove Island Park. Morning walk. 459 consecutive days. Like in a row. Sun, all on its own, decides there’s no damn point getting up this early, is rising later, 5:55 a.m. per Dark Sky app. And...
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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
The simplest theory of human nature is that we work as hard as we can to avoid such experiences. We pursue pleasure and comfort; we hope to make it through life unscathed. Suffering and pain are, by...
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Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call
It was always here, like a secret door you’ve been trying to kick in for years. And then, in the midst of this trial, as you hang your head in defeat, you notice that around your neck you are wearing...
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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
…What isn’t healthy? Being bombarded with such a relentless onslaught of tragic events that the condition of simply living in today’s world makes these feelings chronic. So chronic, our brains’...
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Lightly Child, Lightly
In the morning, I sit with a cup of coffee and organize myself for the day. I watch the sunrise over the lake by my home, and I listen to the sounds of the sparrows and wrens. Orioles come and go from...
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Lightly Child, Lightly (Take 2)
Thomas A. Edison was born in 1847, and on October 21, 1879, he invented the incandescent light bulb. I was born on October 21, 1947, one hundred years after Edison’s birth and on the sixty-eighth...
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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
When something doesn’t find its place… we have to move other things. We have to make room, I think. — Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses. Megan McDowell, Translator (Riverhead Books, October 18,...
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