Shamanic, animistic, primal, intense, and gorgeous. Discovered while at Ecstatic Dance. A shorter version is in rotation on my music service.
Tuesday, June 03, 2025
AMORIRI (Official Video)
Sunday, June 01, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
Music Meditation
These are links to songs that, listened to in sequence, are a form of meditation. I'm providing Youtube links because I don't know if you use Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, etc. Youtube inserts ads in the middle of songs (unless you pay), so I recommend using your favorite service that won't impede listening.
True Joy
“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” — George Bernard Shaw
Friday, May 09, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
Perilous Dark Path
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The Anti-Social Century
"When Epley and his lab asked Chicagoans to overcome their preference for solitude and talk with strangers on a train, the experiment probably didn’t change anyone’s life. All it did was marginally improve the experience of one 15-minute block of time. But life is just a long set of 15-minute blocks, one after another. The way we spend our minutes is the way we spend our decades. “No amount of research that I’ve done has changed my life more than this,” Epley told me. “It’s not that I’m never lonely. It’s that my moment-to-moment experience of life is better, because I’ve learned to take the dead space of life and make friends in it."
-Derek Thompson, The Anti-Social Century (gift link)
Monday, January 13, 2025
The Right Reasons
"The pursuit of happiness is a toxic value that has long defined
our culture. It is self-defeating and misleading. Living well does not
mean avoiding suffering; it means suffering for the right reasons.
Because if we’re going to be forced to suffer by simply existing, we
might as well learn how to suffer well."