I just realized how long it has been since I posted here. I have spent the year putting out TikToks every day. I’ve loved that, and in about two months I will be putting out a book of all my TikToks transcribed. I expect I will call it “Our DailyContinue Reading
The intersection of landscapes can be dangerous. It is natural for us to be wary of letting others guide us into their landscapes – or inviting them into our own (“Will you walk in to my parlor?” said the spider to the fly). The two-thousand-year-old command to “Love thy neighbor!”Continue Reading
Two-hundred years ago, the subject of aesthetics was associated almost exclusively with beauty. In 1794, the German philosopher, Friedrich Schiller, put it perfectly: In the presence of beauty, reason and sense are in harmony, and it is only on account of this harmony that the beautiful has attraction for us.Continue Reading
“Of all modes of acquiring distinction, and, as it were, ‘getting the start of the majestic world,’ the most absurd as well as disgusting is that of setting aside the claims of others in the lump, and holding out our own particular excellence or pursuit as the only one worthContinue Reading
Things happen around us, and we react — often with emotion. Especially in crucial relationships, between friends, family, at work, and all through the human landscape — we react with emotion. But between the thing that happened (which we can usually agree on as a “fact”), and our emotional reaction,Continue Reading