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“Paying” Attention (opens the original)
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Sometimes I look at a phrase and really think about the words in it. What exactly are the costs in this case? Just what do we need to pay for paying attention?The answer for a great many of us has become far too much. Most of us are simply too exhausted to keep up with this payment of anxiety, worry, despair, and most of all, uncertainty about the future, even in the short term.And yet, every day brings another good reason to pay attention.The Iran and Ukraine wars seem to be widening, having cr
Creative Catastrophizing 101 (opens the original)
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I admit, I’ve gotten a lot of dire predictions wrong, mostly about myself. There have been periods of my life when my worries led me to believe things would fall apart, go wrong, be terrible—and in the end, things worked out. I hear that’s pretty common. We do tend to catastrophize. Yes, it’s, in a way, a coping skill. We humans need to make sense of things and the fully unknown is far scarier than a bad known. When faced with the unknown, there are no assurance of control.<a class="image-link i
The Empathy Wars (opens the original)
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I’ve realized that, as a “bleeding heart,” “tree-hugging” progressive, I never imagined empathy itself would come under direct fire as it has today. But this reaction, while shocking, does make a measure of sense, because empathy is at the heart of the political divide. Yet we should not just see it as yet another good-versus-evil narrative and move on. There is a lot here to ponder and reassess.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!puu9!,f_au
To Seek a Livable World (opens the original)
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Yesterday, my new modular home finally arrived on two enormous trucks hauling sixty-foot trailers. I watched as the beasts rounded the corner from the main road onto the dirt lane I share with a few neighbors. It was a little nerve-racking. The load was wider than the road itself. But the workers knew their job, and somehow they got it done.Now the house sits beside its foundation, waiting to be craned into place.The construction has altered my land more than I expected. The footprint is larger
Warring against Wellbeing (opens the original)
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