Open yourself to all that fills you
It is with a heavy heart that I say, after five years of avoiding it, we have the covid-19 virus. Well, it’s a coronavirus of some variety, not sure how the variants work of if they have different names. Corona viruses have been around for-literally-ever. Horses have been getting it for a long time and…
Buddhists will tell you that the root of all suffering is desire. We live in a “want” society and we are given to confuse emotional states with desire. What’s more, we get “influencers” on all sides telling us what we should want, what we need to need, and what we can’t live without. I almost…
Social media is not about connection or keeping in touch. It’s about displaying ones life and getting gratification from external validation. It’s about validating people you don’t know by idolizing the small snapshot of the part of their lives they choose to show. It’s about building a social brand more than anything else and that’s exhausting.
I began, many moons ago, as a traveler in a strange new world.