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  • A lone Swim – Sunday #1

    Trialling a new way to write publicly. Rather than preparing an article every week, I’ll share some of my personal notes. Here are a few of them from the past week. Big fish On…

  • The intruder

    It was obvious within the first five minutes. Balls weren’t bouncing where they should. No one could volley, or rally, or serve. This tennis lesson was a disaster. Everyone looked dejected. What was going…

  • A few things I believe about exercise

    I don’t consider the body to be my own, because I lack for nothing, and because the law is the only thing I esteem, nothing else. Diogenes See what daily exercise does for one.…

  • Going with your gut

    Hesitation is the worst of all crimes Mahabharata If there’s one positive thing to say about a personality test, it’s that they are short. Answer a few simple questions and a few minutes later…

  • The Objective Psyche

    The first principle is not to fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman A dream is information you should have, but don’t. Robert A. Johnson Dreams are hard…

  • La profesora objetiva

    When we begin to learn a new skill, our goals are should be simple. When I signed up for spanish lessons, my goal was to learn a conversational level of the language. In the…

  • Alive and well

    People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell,…

  • A discourse

    I don’t want to get up. But you do, don’t you? You do want to get up. You even promised yourself you would get up last night. And 5 minutes ago. And 10 minutes…

  • Mirror muscles

    “Entombed in this which we carry about with us and call the body, in which we are imprisoned like an oyster in its shell.” Plato If I cherish my body, I make a slave…