Let me tell you something beautiful today. On the banks of the Peruvian Amazon, butterflies are drinking the tears of river turtles. The basking reptiles calmly tolerate this fluttering kaleidoscope, lucky for the butterflies, because the western Amazon is so low in sodium, these tears are the tiny flying herbivores’ only source of vital… Continue reading The wonderful thing about wonder
Tag: Mental Health
Self-improvement vs self-acceptance
My inner critic is a real bitch. I call her The Trunchbull (à la Roald Dahl’s Matilda, pre-censorship). Since childhood, her hard-ass voice has helped me become a general high-achiever type. But it’s also left the emotional debris of crippling perfectionism in its wake. It’s taken a decade of deep reflective work to… Continue reading Self-improvement vs self-acceptance
Thank you for not scrolling here
Distraction is the default mode of modern culture. We ingest a daily barrage of images, media and news intentionally designed to hijack our focus and turn us into information addicts.
It isn’t all in your head
In the 1914 short story, A Painful Case, James Joyce wrote, ‘Mr Duffy lived at a little distance from his body.’ Today, some of us feel like Mr Duffy. Living inside a mind that seems to spend most of its time somewhere other than where we are. This is, of course, not the… Continue reading It isn’t all in your head
