perspective
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You’re Bothering Yourself

This thing bothers you and that thing bothers you, about them, about that. And the traffic bothers you, and the way they draw out that one specific word bothers you, and the fact they ask questions you knew the answers to years ago bothers you, and there’s certainly no end to things you can be… Continue reading
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For Our Purposes

There are three words in the English language that, when strung together, form perhaps the sweetest sounding phrase known to my ears: “For our purposes”… Continue reading
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Forget Who You Are And Remember Who You’re Being

The thing about identity is that we typically use the past as a way to identify ourselves rather than the present. We use yesterday’s emotions as the structure for how we should feel today. We use last year’s events as the evidence for how things go for us. We use childhood trauma as the foundation… Continue reading
