About E. Marmer
E. Marmer is a writer and painter who is trying to lead a big life and recommends you do the same. To check out some of her paintings, visit emarmerstudios.com and empetportraits.com.
What’s wrong with navel-gazing anyway?
Some people use the accusation of “gazing at your own navel” to dismiss a self-exploratory mental exercise as useless, self-indulgent, narcissistic, or worse, primitive. Something an ape might do. But an ape doesn’t ruminate as we do, not about its navel or anything else, and so I reject that characterization. [Read More]