Today, I held you in my mind and said, “Thank you.” — Since we moved to our home in 2005, I’ve been up and down the stairs to the basement somewhere around 13,262 times. My feet have made contact with the carpet on that staircase every day, and I’ve never thought about it. Who made it? How was this carpeting made? I’m…

The Neuro-Spicy* report — Okay. So yesterday I said that today (yesterday’s tomorrow), I would simplify my life by only doing one thing. I would just do the thing that was bothering me the most. I would do the floors. IT’S NOT A MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, I KNOW. Woopteedoo. There are single mothers out there with three children, four jobs, and ex-husbands…

The gauntlet at the feet of anyone who’s “neuro-spicy.”* — My problem is that everything I see is something that should have been done already. Everything. Just walking around my house, for instance. As I get out of bed, I notice the film of dust on the shelves — and instead of just grabbing a dust rag and swiping the…

(poetry) — Sometimes, I feel like I’m dragging around a bipedal bag of meat for no reason. Everywhere I look, there is conflict. …

But there IS one thing we can do, every day. — David Remnick’s opening paragraph from “The New Trump Indictment and the Reckoning Ahead,” (August 1, 2023, The New Yorker) asks a chilling question: “To read the stark criminal indictment, returned by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, charging Donald Trump with conspiring to steal the 2020 Presidential election is to…

A clarification. — Dearest friends across the ether, When I first started reading on Medium, I had no idea that when I clicked on the clapping hands icon for a post that I loved, it had a quantitative element. I clicked once — kind of like we “heart” once, because if we do…

It has to start with myself. Painful as that might be. — PART 1: Comfort vs. Awakening Everywhere in the world — but let’s just take our country, for instance — there is cause for grave concern. We’re bombarded every day by record-breaking heat waves, flash floods, and tornadoes (in places where they don’t usually show up), twisting people’s entire lives off their foundations and leaving them…

Stay with me. It’s not what you think. — Do not stop scrolling. Just keep going, but pay attention. As your thumb slides up that screen over and over, feel into what you want. What do you still want that you didn’t get, each time you scroll to the next thing? (This is counter-intuitive, because you’re not going to…

Respecting the complexity of our world on this 4th of July — On July 4th, we celebrate the birth of our nation. This was the day in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, announcing the separation of thirteen North American British colonies from Great Britain. Independence is one thing, and it’s important. But interdependence is another…