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roger that!
The funny thing about therapy is that, while you might assume that it’s about one person telling another person all of their problems, it’s actually about two people, not one. You need two people to have any kind of relationship, and that is precisely what therapy is. On the very last day of my placement… Keep reading
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flowers still bloom
Last week I shared a poem. (For those who didn’t see it, I’ll share it below.) In it, the poet made a remark about how bravery came from standing upright, flower in hand, rather than leaning over a cliff to pick the flower in the first place. I interpreted this as something of a bittersweet… Keep reading
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twenty-five
I don’t do this often, if I do it at all. I wanted to share a poem that stuck out to me: I remember my grandfather peering over a cliff and leaning down to grab a flower growing at the edge of it. At the time I feared for him— what bravery to look down… Keep reading
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vegans can be annoying… but they do have a point!
How do you know if someone’s a vegan? Answer: don’t worry, they’ll tell you! Joking aside, I do feel that vegans and even vegetarians get more flack than they should in contemporary society. At least in the West. Unlike other parts of the world, such as India, we don’t exactly have a long tradition of… Keep reading
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on humour
I love a laugh. It’s probably my favourite thing in the world—better than sex, even! And so I’ve often wondered, particularly as I’ve spent more and more money on stand-up tickets, what’s so good about it? It definitely feels good to laugh, but I think it goes even deeper than that. For a start, I… Keep reading
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dead or alive?
As a kid, I had this little wood carving of a man crouched over in a cross-legged position, appearing to cry into his hands. I was told it was called the weeping Buddha. I don’t know what happened to that carving, but I came across another as I was browsing a store some two years… Keep reading
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philosophy without religion (& vice versa)
I’ve often said that if I ever did a PhD, I would want to do it in Asia. From what (admittedly little) research I’ve done, their universities often seem to combine their departments of philosophy and religion. In fact, I recall reading somewhere (I think in A Short History of Chinese Philosophy by Feng Youlan?)… Keep reading
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Kiviuq
In grade three or four (something like that), for one of our classes, each of us had to give a presentation on one of the provinces or territories. I chose Nunavut, which is Canada’s most recently established province or territory, only becoming official in the 1990s. Why did I pick it? To be honest, I… Keep reading
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zen & tidying
Earlier this year, I did the Kon-Mari method of tidying. You may have heard of it from that book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo. Funnily enough, I’m not sure I ever embraced the method fully. I have to accept that I didn’t set aside a day to make an “event” of… Keep reading
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silent music
Meditation halls are very, very quiet places. The one I find myself in every week is no exception. Sitting there, I can hear all of the minutest and subtlest sounds a human being will ordinarily make: the rhythmic sound of one’s breathing, the ruffling of clothes as someone adjusts their posture, and the grumbling of… Keep reading
El Filósofo
Notes from a Zenned-Out Catholic