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.
Category: values
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
Life is Outside
In the simplest sense of physical fitness, human-powered physical activity, especially in the outdoors, is essential to living well. We have to move and use our bodies, and far more so than most of us are in the habit of doing. One of the key reasons is that “exercise” is terribly boring. I grew up… Continue reading Life is Outside