compassion Getting Soft in Hard Times The antidote to a bruising world isn't a tougher shell, but a softer heart.
contemplative practice Middle Management: Notes on the Threshold There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that arrives not at the end of something hard but somewhere in the middle. You’ve been in the shit long enough for the shock to have worn off but the light at the end of the tunnel remains an inky maw. The
anhedonia The Common Infrastructure of Survival The shows still happen. You even go to a few. And the BBQs, the sports events, the kids’ birthdays. You show up, make plans, and from the outside, things seem more or less intact. But there’s a disconnect from the experiences of your life that feels isolating and somehow
