Essays and insights on the nature of consciousness, from the archetypal to the personal and political, centered on how we live and work, and the cultures we’re creating.
In addition to reading below, you can also listen to some of these posts as audio essays here on my podcast channel, Again, but with Feeling.
Indestructible & Unavoidable
Here we are again, friends. Here, at the end of another year and in the dead of winter, at an emptying out point of the year when we enjoy the longest periods of darkness. [...]
Begin with the Beginning in Mind
I’ve been staying in the remote redwoods and rugged shoreline of California’s Lost Coast for nearly a month. It took three whole weeks for my mind, body, and psyche to downshift and find a more [...]
The Dramatic Pause
In 2024, I'm sure we're all exhausted by the unprecedentedness of our times, but in our own lives this might be a (annoying) theme as well. And it forces us into an unfamiliar mode of [...]
Some untrendy wisdom for your hardest days.
~ Lately it seems like every time I check in with an old friend, I hear about how they've been going through some extraordinarily tough life experience during the last six months or so. I'm [...]
Expansion > Growth in 2024
Well, welcome to 2024. You made it. I made it. Incredibly we all got through 2023, which was a ride. And this new year is coming in strong with some trends of its own, I think [...]
It’s not you. It’s us.
Dear friends & clients, As I start down the path of writing my dissertation (on the cultural complex of individualism and the epidemic of loneliness in the American psyche), I have been reading Johann Hari’s [...]
(Maternal) Ambivalence, Myopia, and the Plague of Analysis Paralysis
[To listen to an audio version of this post, click here or search for "Again, but with Feeling" wherever you get your podcasts.] I was never the kid that dreamed of having babies. I didn’t [...]
Growing Down: Avoidance, Decay and the Riches of Depressive Cycles
To listen to an audio version of this post, click here. For the last several months I’ve been battling a mealybug infestation in one of my favorite houseplants. It’s an awful icky plague that leaves [...]
The Weight of Assumed Potential [New Year Newsletter]
I rarely enjoy the start of January. When everyone is off making resolutions, doing rituals, and displaying a general sense of optimism, I have a heavy bog of existential dread that washes over me. Over the last [...]