So lately I’ve noticed a “happiness” trend. I heard the “pursuit of happiness” originated as the “pursuit of property,” which is interesting if it’s true. Also, the pursuit of happiness was to be expressed in the context of community rather than today’s interpretation of Individual Happiness Above All. It was written with the assumed context … Continue reading can pursuing happiness foster unhappiness
Unhealed women often parent out of fear and control. We just can’t help it. We know we’re lost, we know we’re inadequate, and along comes this beautiful, tiny human bean, and we begin wrapping our hearts around him or her. We were hoping a man would complete us, but we realize we were mistaken, and … Continue reading growing human beans
from brainpickings.org by Maria Popova But the magic of human communication, Le Guin observes, is that something other than mere information is being transmitted — something more intangible yet more real: In most cases of people actually talking to one another, human communication cannot be reduced to information. The message not only involves, it is, … Continue reading Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
She took her questions to her dad. “Am I interesting? Am I beautiful? Do you enjoy my words? Do you enjoy me?” She offered an invitation into her world, but the doorway was too small And she had no magic potion to make it bigger. She took her loneliness to her books and songs. And … Continue reading incomplete portrait of a life
living authentically between brave and terrified 