I think I got my first zit in fifth grade. My parents both struggled with acne in their teens, so they knew that it was going to be inevitable for me. I’m not sure what kind of health insurance my parents had at the time, but my frugal, busy mother immediately took me to aContinue reading “things i love: acne”
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things i love: hunger
I have recently made a very astonishing discovery. For my entire life, I never understood what hunger felt like. That’s not to say that I never felt hungry. Just that I didn’t understand what it meant. I’ve always been drawn to concepts like intentional eating and intuitive eating. The idea that our bodies know exactlyContinue reading “things i love: hunger”
greed
For a while now, I have been pondering the idea of greed. We are never satisfied. It is not a new failing. Some of our most ancient myths, epics, stories, and texts all deal with the concept. I read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick recently for the first time. Somehow it never came up in anyContinue reading “greed”
design + surrender 