The adventures of an insatiable wonderer.
"The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it." —Anton Chekhov I am sitting in a cafe, eating a warm baguette with salty butter. My body is satisfyingly sore from a morning run. My breath is slow and soft. My mind is puzzling over the complex concept of happiness, tangled in philosophy and... Continue Reading →
“A human being is part of a whole called by us universe.” — Albert Einstein This week I finally put into words what I’ve been learning and thinking about connection, community, and loneliness since I left the familiarity of my world in New York and unexpectedly began to build a new life and a new... Continue Reading →
Do the thing you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt This week I have been immersed in yoga teacher training, diving into the history, philosophy, and science behind why moving around in a room with other people can make us feel so good. That’s where I learned about the muscle spindle stretch receptor, which can... Continue Reading →
I am not only what I do, but also what I do not. — John Fowles Every few seconds, whether we realize it or not, our brain sends a signal down our spine telling our diaphragm to contract, enlarging our chest cavity and allowing our lungs to expand and air to be pulled in through our... Continue Reading →
I run, therefore I am. — Hal Higdon In October 2017, I ran the Amsterdam marathon in 3:27:24, a personal best and Boston-qualifying time. I had gotten a total of eight hours of sleep in the three days leading up to the race. I almost missed my flight from Paris to Amsterdam because I could barely... Continue Reading →
There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome. — Mark Twain I am a stickler for a consistency, notoriously never permitting my team to submit a legal brief without making sure that every use of ellipses is proper: “word … word” — not “word… word” or “word . . . word.” So it... Continue Reading →
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me, I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. — Frank Herbert I never thought I’d find myself inside a gentlemen’s club... Continue Reading →
A people without knowledge of their past origin, history, and culture, is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey This week I learned that there is such a thing as a Strawberry Tree. It certainly deserves its name, even if it (sadly) doesn’t actually produce strawberries. A dense, bushy tree reaching up to 40... Continue Reading →
