Life, Death, Beauty, Melancholy
There’s a giant in my head and it ain’t me. I despise that giant. Every time I fall into the abyss, I have to fight him, he beats me, forever he beats me and then somehow he releases me and […]
Start Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius
And avoid these 3 awful things I was having sleepless nights, when the jackals circled me, tore and ripped at me through the long, dark hours. When dawn came, I pulled the blankets over my head and lay petrified beneath […]
This One Trick, Tricks Death
I learnt it in my job as a personal historian who has conducted hundreds of interviews with people over 80 I was looking for a woman who lived a few miles from a tiny village in the west of Ireland, […]
Loneliness Is Killing Us
Lethal as smoking a pack a day Yikes. Nicholas Kristof, writing in the New York Times kicks the guts with some staggering stats. 1 in 5 adults are lonely 1 in 2 are unmarried 1 in 3 marriages are strained 1 in […]
7 Life Lessons from Tao
The Tao Te Ching takes 20 minutes to read and 20 lifetimes to understand. This dog learned it in 1. The Tao Te Ching, a two and half thousand-year text credited to Laozi, the second most translated book in world […]
7 Stoic Exercises to Relax and Be Calm
1. Don’t Give A Fuck Practice Seriously, Don’t Give A Fuck about other people’s opinions, any of them. You cannot control what anyone thinks of you, so why worry? Fear of being ostracized from the herd is in our DNA. If […]