By: Jacob Nordby
September 2, 2022

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From the driver’s seat of a U-Haul van, I watched the scorching black snake of highway crawl away across the desert ahead. Swirling dust devils on either side of the road matched the chaos of thoughts that swarmed in my head. “Where am I going?” “Why am I doing this?” “What will happen when I […]

By: Jacob Nordby
September 2, 2022

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I only know one way to keep or regain a passion for life. The word is porous. Porous. Permeable. Able to be penetrated by. Capable of being drenched all the way through. Vulnerable. There are as many ways of living as there are humans, but there are two main ways of being that determine how […]

By: Jacob Nordby
August 28, 2022

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In individual psychology, there’s an experience called by different names, but the more poetic and evocative term is “shadow work.” This is a process during which a person begins to face the denied, disowned, rejected, and suppressed parts of her or himself—and integrate them. The psyche cannot be whole or healthy without engaging in this process […]

By: James McGinley
August 26, 2022

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There is an art form from Japan called kintsugi. Literally, it means repairing with gold. The art form reportedly originates from 15th century Japan when the shogunate Ashigaka Yoshimasa dropped and broke a beloved tea cup. The tea cup was eventually taken to a skilled Japanese ceramic artist who glued the pieces together and highlighted […]

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