Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

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Anxiety and its other side

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Feb 26, 2022
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“High way and Byways” (1929), Paul Klee

I delivered pizza during high school, which meant a lot of time driving. So I invented a game to entertain myself: anytime my front tires were about to cross a shadow, I’d lightly tap the wheel, then tap again when the shadow had passed. The idea was my car was leaping over the shadows.

Around the same time, I ate …

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