What is abundance? Surely it includes shelter, clean water, and food. How is abundance clearly accessible to you? What about global abundance, abundance for all people? What levers, so to speak, would you pull so that we would generate more abundance? There are at least two things we might agree on. It doesn’t have to […]

The ground often gives way and leaves little footing; maybe that is why I am so buoyant. Life is full of events — you may have noticed — both fortunate and otherwise. The essential teaching of Stoicism seems to be that, with a mind of discipline intent on right perception, those events we sometimes find […]

I am launching a project in a few days. It’s a super-project, actually. I am calling it Autotelic. The name Autotelic represents the essential spirit of the project, which is to create situations where the various sub-projects emerge and mature successfully in an organic fashion, each emerging ‘of itself’ naturally thanks to the situations I […]

I got away from the city for the past few days.The quiet is incredibly rejuvenating.In the wilderness, I’ve let my mind wander some. One of the things that occurred to me this morning is how, especially in my youth, I revered the sniper and the tracker for essentially the same reason: they cooperate with their […]

For various (external) reasons, I haven’t had a sound night’s rest this past week. It’s impairing me, sure. Aside from caffeine, which is as normal to me as air, the routines are wildly helpful. A morning routine gets me started off right. An evening routine gets me settling in for the night with my mind […]

I remember that, as a child, I would enjoy enduring the challenge of a lengthy run in P. E. (physical education, aka phys ed). No doubt this was in part because I looked up to an excellent runner in the family. And I don’t doubt that this enjoyment was partly emphasized by the social contrast […]