For more than a decade, I’ve been writing about creativity, transitions, and the examined life. Some of that writing lands close to the work I do with clients; some of it doesn’t.
The question underneath all of it is the same: What do you see when you slow down and look closely? Here’s a sampling of essays, below.
The glorious improbability of us.
Is rugged individualism now truly in our DNA? Did centuries of systematically pursuing individual liberties lead us beyond policy, beyond philosophy, to a place in which our bodies became coded as lone wolves and utter assholes?
Running into stillness
Three ages, one recurring path: a heartbroken twentysomething learning to run because her friends worry about her, a newly-forty-year-old finding an old running partner again after loss, and a mother, at 60, crossing a finish line hip-to-hip with her grown children.
How Art Might Save the World
Consider this: Asking a six-year-old, “why is blue dog blue?” opens neural pathways in a way that asking for the “right” answer never does. Art, not standardized testing, is the basis of that thinking.
The comfort of familiar things
Middle age finds us in the thick of the holding-dear-and-letting-go days: new freedom, a keener appreciation for small mementos, and the tenderness of comfort and familiarity.