Examined Life: Far to fall
EXAMINED LIFE Author Anne Lamott once wrote, “My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.” It’s a pearl, but of course it’s also a joke. No one gets to avoid the sketchy terrain of the mind....
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It’s the end of an era, albeit a very short one. In 2014, Against the Stream (ATS) Buddhist Meditation Society—an organization founded by counter culture Buddhist teacher Noah Levine—opened a local...
View ArticleLife is hard. Say yes to that.
EXAMINED LIFE It’s winter and it’s dark out and we’re approaching the holiday season, so … I want to talk about being uncomfortable. I like to talk about discomfort because it’s real and it’s...
View ArticleWhen our bodies break down
EXAMINED LIFE No one plans for sickness. We plan for busy schedules and vacation time and meeting deadlines. We plan for school and for retirement, for weekends and for seasons. But we don’t build time...
View ArticleExamined Life: On shaky ground
EXAMINED LIFE We are, none of us, on steady ground. This is a spiritual truth, but it’s also increasingly become a practical truth, especially in San Francisco. Things we once counted on here can no...
View ArticleExamined Life: A year to love for no reason
Spiritual teacher and author Ram Dass once wrote, “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” This is one of...
View ArticleExamined Life: Replace existing normal
So, here we are. I finally did my laundry. It had piled up from a week of vacation, followed by a week of social distancing, followed by two weeks of shelter-in-place. It felt normal, doing my laundry....
View ArticleExamined Life: Being human at a time like this
I was awake late on the evening of Thursday, October 1, when I found out the 45th President of the United States had tested positive for COVID. I was up because, like many of you, I’ve been having...
View ArticleExamined Life: Are you ready to open up?
I miss. I miss so many things. It wasn’t always like this. I used to pack and travel and move around without missing. As a latchkey kid traveling between divorced parents, I wasn’t raised to miss. But...
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Who says mythology is fiction? Group show explores edge of fantasy
Under the Waqwaq Tree is an invitation into a sensorial imaginary, a dream made corporeal. On view at the gallery / (slash) in San Francisco, this otherworldly group exhibition curated by Naz Cuguoğlu...
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