I don’t know if I have the clinical version of depression but I certainly have some of its symptoms. And it seems like they’ve been lurking in the background since at least my teenage years, always coming hand-in-hand with loneliness …
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As I do so often on this blog, I would like to share something from my personal experience in the hope that it might help others gain some insights about their own life. On Friday, I attended a meditation group. …
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I have been struggling with loneliness lately. It’s probably been exacerbated by my bout with hypothyroidism because i just don’t have the energy to maintain connections – and i am guessing i also damaged a few because i reacted out …
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I’ve been thinking a lot about time and friendship lately. Maybe it’s because my recent energy crash brought to light that somehow i was burning myself out (again). Yes, it was partly hypothyroidism and there were other contributing factors, like …
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Using pragmatist models of democracy as a two-strand entity that has to become part of our daily lives to fully function, i outline how we can design families to support the participatory strand. Following Dewey’s suggestion to evaluate “inherited institutions,” …
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As I was waking up this morning, in that state of not-quite-awakeness, the name Sisyphus bubbled up. Somehow the idea of dragging myself out of bed to do almost exactly the same thing I had done the day before, felt …
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