What’s Next?

In When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron tells a story about Trungpa Rinpoche: He was traveling with his attendants to a monastery he’d never seen before. As they neared the gates, he saw a large guard dog with huge teeth and red eyes. It was growling ferociously and struggling to get free from the chain […]

Viral Yellow

One yellow door, on one house. It was a reasonable wake up accent for an otherwise understated facade. But when yellow showed up just a few houses down, the understated gave way to garish. Gerald Horne, architect and friend, has long advocated for “architecture insurance”–a way to protect us from really bad decisions made by […]

Quiet Disasters

Fall of Icarus, by Breughel Musee des Beux Arts About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, […]

Flow Comes to Town

The positive psychology movement contends that people are most content when they are fully engaged in a task for which they are well suited. Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi calls this state flow. According to his research, the best way to achieve happiness is to view it as a “by-product of absorption.” And as Csikzentmihalyi points out, it […]