Everything in life is a practice. Everything! Making coffee, finding a good camp site, writing code, taking photographs, living with a partner—we get good at what we do, and if we don’t do it, we don’t get good at it. If we want to get good at living, we have to practice living well.
Author: Bowen
Community is Necessary
We humans are social animals, and most of us cannot thrive, or even survive, in isolation. Our society is not geared to foster connections, let alone community. As Johann Hari explains so well in his book, Lost Connections, the disconnection from other people, from meaningful work, from values, from truth, from respect, from nature, from… Continue reading Community is Necessary
What Are You Drinking? Aug 14, 2019 at The Battery
The familiar social-hour question of “what are you drinking?” has always included an implicit assumption. Somehow many of us came to believe that the social connection wasn’t the main point, and that it’s alcohol that makes us happy. In recent years, tastes, habits and fashions around alcohol have been changing rapidly, and contemporary research has… Continue reading What Are You Drinking? Aug 14, 2019 at The Battery