I often work inside the Tribeca Film offices. Which means that on my way to mediate high-stakes human conflict, I walk past walls covered in movie history. Posters. Portraits. Faces that mean something to millions of people. It’s an oddly cinematic commute. One afternoon, waiting for a client, I found […]
Why Regrets Are Good (And People Who Say Otherwise Are Wrong) There’s a vapid sentence people like to say in interviews and late-night conversations. “I have no regrets.” It’s supposed to signal courage. Backbone. Fearlessness. A life lived without hesitation. We often admire that person. That’s because we’re also suckers
They call it a thunderclap. I did not ease into this headache. It detonated my brain. People say dying is easy compared to living honestly. I didn’t yet know if that was true, but I was about to find out what the popular idiom dying is easy actually means. One
This morning I went to meditate and realized I only had my fancy candle left. Not the regular candle. Not the “this is fine for a Tuesday” candle. The special one. The one I’ve been saving like it’s a limited edition relic from a lost civilization. The candle equivalent of
It was ten a.m. and you had a meeting at noon, two hours to write, or two hours to fritter away. Your bathroom mirror quoted the David Sedaris Masterclass for motivation in black glass pen cursive. Reading it, you hung a thin striped robe on the back of the door
I’m quoting Richard Rohr here – saying we’re all addicts. Not addicted in the dramatic way. Addicted in the everyday way: the way we reach for something the second we don’t want to feel what we feel. The notion that we’re all addicts is obviously off-putting and unfriendly to our