Category: Saturday Reflections
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Day 355 of 1000: The Textuality of Life
Nietzsche thought your life should be lived as literature, according to Alexander Nehamas. Life as a text to interpret.
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Day 348 of 1000: Magic at Midlife
Riffing off a Tarot reading that included Justice, King of Swords, and Two of Pentacles. Finding magic in acting with attentiveness and character.
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Day 341 of 1000: Affirming Abundance
I got a new rug cleaning machine today, to complement my four vacuum cleaners. Have I reached enough yet? Is this abundance?
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Day 334 of 1000: The Craft Rich Lifestyle
Devoting my life to craft: writing, options trading, dog walking, painting. The wealth that comes from manual skilled labor.
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Day 327 of 1000: Changing the World for One Person
The attention economy says that what counts is how many followers you have. Instead, what about inspiring just one person?
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Day 320 of 1000: Choosing to Be Single
In which I share ideas from Bella DePaulo’s book Single at Heart and how a choice to be single can arise via positive disintegration.
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Day 313 of 1000: Aspiration as an Alternative to Ambition
Philosopher Agnes Callard contrasts ambition and aspiration. Ambition seeks understood goals. Aspiration seeks new values.
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Day 306 of 1000: A Different Approach to Leash Reactivity
From a video by dog behaviorist Dr. Melanie Uhde, using “dynamic interactive engagement” when a dog spots another dog while on leash.
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Day 299 of 1000: Fundamental Tiredness
Byung-Chul Han and Peter Handke on tiredness — the divisive kind and the uniting kind. The kind I am feeling today.
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Day 292 of 1000: Is The Dollar’s Reserve Currency Status at Risk?
If we are in a fourth turning, will we see a new world reserve currency emerge?
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Day 285 of 1000: In This alone
As I move towards committing to living a life by myself, I reflect on the Nine of Pentacles Tarot card and ideas from Kingma’s Coming Apart.
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Day 258 of 1000: Still Here
Making it to age 57 is an achievement. I grieve for the people in my past who didn’t get the chance.
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Day 244 of 1000: Working Through a Painting Block
Working through a painting block by changing subjects and using a color I rarely use, raw umber.
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Day 230 of 1000: Freestyle Investing
Applying the lessons of freewriting to investing, for people who can’t stomach buy-and-hold.
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Day 210 of 1000: Writing from a cyborg persona
Sharing my plan to communicate my reckless philosophy of midlife through an alternate persona, one which leverages AI for more power.
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Day 203 of 1000: The reckless road trip
Planning a reckless and somewhat impulsive road trip from Denver to New Orleans, to transport my dad’s dog to my sister’s place.
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Day 196 of 1000: Looking forward to January
Looking forward to January, I drew the Hanged Man. This card suggests surrender to the flow of life, and independently acting as myself.
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Day 189 of 1000: Integrating a new (old) dog into my life
Work practice, approaching the daily work we do with wholeheartedness, applied to integrating a new dog into my household.
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Day 175 of 1000: Goddess archetypes for the midlife to late life transition
Looking forward to late life, what goddess archetypes am I living out right now? Hecate and Hestia, I think.
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Day 161 of 1000: Writing as self-immolation
Thoughts from Simon Critchley and Annie Dillard on writing as lighting one’s self on fire, becoming a wick for the sake of the flame.
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DAy 154 of 1000: Finding your equivalent vs experiencing the other
A redditor posts that she wants to find her equivalent. I propose that she’s going about seeking romance wrong.
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Day 147 of 1000: Murdoch and the reckful vs reckless distinction
Free writing about Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of the good alongside my concept of reckfull vs reckless living.
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Day 141 of 1000: Woman as subject not object
A neighborly dispute about trash leads me to an exploration of de Beauvoir’s work and the prisoner’s dilemma.
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Day 127 of 1000: Pursuing differentiation in relationship
Psychiatrists Murray Bowen and Peter Kramer on pursuing self-differentiation in a relationship.
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Day 120 of 1000: Thinking a book into existence
Writing a book is difficult, says creativity coach Eric Maisel, because thinking is hard work. “A book is a bit of newly minted meaning.”
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Day 113 of 1000: There is no golden path
There’s not a golden path, or a right way, to do the things you want to do. It’s time for me to just write the darn book and stop looking for how to do it the right way.
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Day 107 of 1000: Reckless vs reckful
Considering the word reckless, what it means, and where it came from. What’s the opposite? Reckful.
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Day 100 of 1000: On developing skill as a writer and artist
Writing and painting with intent, rather than focusing on skills development and deliberate practice.
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Day 93 of 1000: Finding meaning In the achievement society
Living in the achievement society of late modern life, how do you find meaning? Going beyond ambition, achievement, and affluence.
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Day 65 of 1000: What boredom might point to
Feeling bored and burnt out, I turn to the Tarot. The Judgment card asks if I’m turning down a call to adventure.
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DAy 58 of 1000: refinding my wildness
Finding in the myth of Psyche a way of understanding why my marriage had to end: because I needed to find my lost wildness.
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Day 51 of 1000: Reflections on my aging boyfriend
Using Ian Leslie’s 27 Notes on Growing Old(er) as a starting point for reflecting on my new romantic relationship.
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Day 37 of 1000: Writing The story of my ring
Working on my writing, both recording present day events and writing a narrative essay about a ring I received as a gift ten years ago.
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Day 30 of 1000: Small habit changes
A small change to my morning routine is resulting in a big impact on my writing productivity and engagement.