Archive - On Things

Cultivating ambition for quiet, ordinary things

On what makes perfect days

Apr 24 •

Some things on Vipassana

Initial reflections from a 10-day silent meditation course

Apr 19 •

March 2024

On worrying about things

An experiment for internal distractions

Mar 26 •

A year of collecting things from the day

15 of my favourites

Mar 22 •

When things get soggy

On embracing micro-discomforts

Mar 4 •

February 2024

The next and most necessary thing

Notes on finding your own way

Feb 22 •

Doing things for the sake of it

On private joys

Feb 15 •

On deciding between things

A process for finding flow

Feb 9 •

When the thing that drives you also gets in the way

Feb 1 •

January 2024

Letting things unfold

On having a ball with uncertainty

Jan 26 •

Things on input and output years

Embracing the ebb and flow

Jan 19 •

The thing that helped in my first year of sobriety

Finding delight in abstinence

Jan 12 •

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