“The path, traveler, is made in the walking.”
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Anti-Ambition: My Why
Someone asked about “my why.” Not just why am I trying to write, although I am. But why am I doing this, working so hard, why do I care, why do I bother. He says his “why” is freedom and thinking clearly. Which I’m sure are important steps in the process. But at bottom, I…
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I Would Rather Be A Bog Witch
Tears blurred out the cheerful woman on the webinar. My heart pounded alarmingly, and it felt like I had swallowed a hot coal. This was looking like another failure. I had just spent more than $2k that I didn’t have, on this class that promised a “proven path to meaningful, creative, work from home.” By…
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How to Walk Through the Unknown
The truth is that we want answers. We want clarity. We want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that things will work out. And life does not provide that. The universe has a much higher tolerance for ambiguity than we do. So where does that leave us? We still have to walk the…
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On Starting Somewhere
I think a lot of this story from Atomic Habits by James Clear… The moral of the story here is that we do better things if we try and fail, and fail often, than if we hold our breath theorizing about perfection. Of course, it makes sense that it is hard to fail. Many of…
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Beginning in the Middle
There’s something comforting about starting at the beginning. A clean page. A clear declaration of intent. But most of us don’t begin that way. We begin in the middle — carrying half-formed ideas, unfinished questions, and the quiet sense that something is unfolding even if we can’t yet name it. Spiral Trail is a space…