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slowness as an ideal
what does it mean to live slowly?
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impermanence
Everything is impermanent. Everything is on fire, smoldering at the edges, burning. Moment to moment, everything suffers a miniature death and miniature…
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take it easy
The last two weeks: waking at 5am in a tent, gray and gritty light poking through the stretched nylon. Two hours of yoga and meditation. Watching white…
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Be an animal
OR: don’t do a meditation retreat
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Commit before you're ready
against temporary living
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keeping promises to myself
An informal, unedited piece. This month in Thailand: I wake at 5. Spend the early hours writing in the enclosed garden of my airbnb with a coffee, lit…
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I’m (not?) a good person
“You need to know, I don’t think you’re a good person.” The words came through my tiny phone speaker and hit me like an anaphylactic shock. Cold…
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walking on the side of the road
The sucking sound of tires on wet asphalt builds up behind, to a piercing crescendo, then shoots forward, like the release of a rubber band, as a silver…
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Tommy Dixon
Tommy Dixon
essays on coming home (every Saturday)
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