I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I had no internal “This is nice” barometer to guide me. Obviously, when she touched me, there were some things that were physically pleasant, but overall emotionally, I was indifferent. And when I touched her… Nothing. I didn’t feel anythi...
After that moment of first tasting Metta meditation, I practiced it daily for months. What I discovered was that by going into different scenarios that were emotionally charged or challenging, this meditation helped me to lessen, remove, or heal that charged emotion. I no longer held onto the ...
but also that is that a utilitarian ethics seems absent from children’s minds. In other words, children do not try to maximize the total sum of benefits for everybody. That is why, in the “envy” situation, children (at least after 5 or 6 years of age) tend...
I could have done without the emotionally fey soundtrack from Simon Leoza which felt like AI had munched its way through the Mumford and Sons discography and spat out a sonically generic something which doesn’t support the quality of the performers’ execution or the strength of their concept...
For comedians, getting attacked onstage on occasion when things get charged is something many can relate to. But getting attacked offstage and outside performance venues seems like a different beast altogether. Sadly, though, it happens: just askSaturday Night Live(SNL) alum Chris Redd who was...
For that reason, Nietzsche famously hated Christ’s ethics for elevating the weak and the poor. Since I first read Nietzsche in college, my response has been “Hell yeah; guilty as charged; you’re right about the core of Christianity and that’s what I love about it.” As can be ...
Now the focus has moved to the victims realtivies who are stepping up to make sure the 15 year old has the support she needs to make a full recovery, physically and emotionally. When Timothy Johnson and his wife LaTricia Johnson first received the call from the Houston hospital and Child...
disrupting our lives indefinitely. For five grueling months, we collaborated with two other investigation firms, pouring resources into the pursuit, only to find ourselves drained emotionally and financially. Evading justice was his forte, thanks to military training that equipped him for such evasion ...
not just a white feminist issue or about who can tell whom what they can do with their own bodies, it’s also a parenting issue: who is ready to be a parent and what that means (emotionally, physically and economically). I applaud her for the work she’s doing with young people arou...
together in 2011. And we planned every minute to be with each other, close family and friends. It was surreal. She was calm, even more adult-like and confident knowing she had an opera singing job waiting for her in Vegas even if her estranged husband was already emotionally divorced from...