BreatheLess
Essays on health, breathwork, internal alchemy, and philosophy.
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Digressions//7: The perfect paper, Kissin, and Russian thistle. (opens the original)
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9.18.2026“Oh, strawberries don’t taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!”—John Steinbeck Read more
How to be a Gooner. (opens the original)
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Digressions//6: Running is human freedom. (opens the original)
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9.7.2026Title reads many ways… Read more
Life is a mistake. (opens the original)
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Pick a pen, find paper, and draw a circle. It’s awful, isn’t it? Frankly, it doesn’t get much better unless you have some talent. My circles, in fact all of the shapes I’d attempted, were equally awful but it was fun to try to sketch the life around me. So, I decided, with the help of an artsy friend-to-be-pursued guiding my hand and fiddling my pocket, to enroll in one of those fancy atelier-schools for a crash course.If you don’t subscribe…<form class="
Why you don't really want to change. (opens the original)
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The life you don’t want is the only life you know.I have a question for you. It will appear simple, but resist the urge to jump to conclusions and read through:Do you feel “emotions” because of what you experience or is what you experience the result of your “emotions”?I think you could safely answer “both”, using the same aetiological framework often employed in behavioral psychology:Something happens → I feel XYZI feel XYZ → I do somethingAs far as describing what can be obs
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