Tolerance
I recently read a brilliant essay on tolerance that clarified for me why I haven’t always experienced successful outcomes while practicing it! Here’s a quote to think about from that article: “[Tolerance] is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be...
The Tyranny of Trying
This week’s post is suspended between two stories. The first one is the old Greek myth of Sisyphus. Sisyphus was a crafty and deceitful king who craved complete power. In his pursuit of power, he offended many men and gods and was eventually punished by being sent to...
Being Right
I sit down this week with a tangle of feelings around what I want to say. It’s hard to know how to begin. Sometimes I think with longing of the days I lived alone. There were things about being alone that were destroying me, which is why I left that life, but I did...