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Last year I wrote a post called "Almost everyone I know is lost about what they want (and is coping by adopting the goals of others)". This was…
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February 2023

Today I want you to meet my pal Stripes! Stripes was a wild chipmunk that lived outside of my house in 2019 and 2020, and we were close friends! But…
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Two months ago I noticed that the way I had been blogging wasn't working. So instead of whatever I had been doing before, I decided to start writing…
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One man proposes and says "I want to marry you because you’re better than every other woman I've dated". Another man proposes and says "I want to marry…
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A few months ago I started experimenting with stretching intuitively, and I've found it really enjoyable. In this post I want to give curious readers a…
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I've written a few posts (1, 2) about "boundaries", but I realize now that using this term requires disambiguation between two concepts and also isn’t…
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Humans, we drove you to this fate, / Our hunger for your meat, / You were the perfect food for us, / But now, we must admit defeat. …
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January 2023

Now that I understand boundaries a lot better, I've stopped disliking individuals in the same way I used to. For example, a while ago I met someone and…
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Even during periods when I've made myself busy, I still leave a few hours for solitude each day. —To meditate, to write, to journal, to talk aloud in…
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I was depressed from about 2022 April to 2022 November; I think there were two overlapping depressions there, and in this post I want to write about the…
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Years of body tension due to following external advice badly resolved by "What if I use my breath to expand the part that's tense and cramped?"
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As part of my ~meditation journey in the past year, I've started noticing often when I'm stomping in various ways. By stomping, I roughly mean the…
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