Snake, Please

I lost my composure during a guided meditation on equanimity. Yeah. Equanimity—that steadiness of mind and composure in response to any situation? Well, I’m not a skilled meditator. But at least no one else on the call could see or hear me! In this guided session we were prompted to bring to mind s…

Please go to itslikethis.substack.com for a full transcript and links. Back in the early days of the pandemic, someone said that one way to protect your mental health when the world outside is off the rails is to find a little corner of your life and control the heck out of it. Straighten a junk dr…

Thoughts on caregiving, the big brutal bill, and a call to save Medicaid, for all of us. Please see the text edition of this newsletter for the full transcript and links, here: https://itslikethis.substack.com/p/waiting-game This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other su…

Annapolis, Maryland. 1975-ish. Just after a rain. I was maybe four years old, riding my bike around our dirt driveway in the woods. My training wheels got stuck in the mud and I found myself on a stationary bike, my back wheel spinning an inch above the muck without moving me forward. I felt it beg…