Wish 264: lovingly curated

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. I write a Very Personal Ad each week to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desires. The point isn’t getting my wish (though cool things have emerged from wishing), the point is learning about my...

Operation Tomorrow-Me I Love You!

I am recently back from two weeks at the Vicarage, a place that is both real and imaginary, where I devoted myself to exploring the previously unknown-to-me territories of tranquility. Since I hadn’t visited these places, I didn’t really have a sense of...

Wish #252: Provisioning

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. I write a Very Personal Ad each week to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desires. The point isn’t getting my wish (though cool things have emerged from wishing), the point is learning about my...

Three small letters.

My New Year’s Eve ritual: An early Happy Hour with a friend at a gorgeous hotel bar. Quiet. Whiskey. Delicious food. Laughter. Pommes frites for dessert. I bring a small notebook and I write three small letters to myself, one to a page. The size of the notebook...

A candle and a birthday wish.

A year ago today, I accidentally came up with a just-right-for-me birthday practice. I put it here, of course, and called it a letter from me-today to me-a-year-from-now. And now I just reread it. Thank you, letter. Thank you, last-year-me. Man, I had absolutely no...
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