Free to Navel Gaze
Discoveries by E. Marmer
The Harvard Business Review featured this article by Diane Musho Hamilton, about how to practice remaining calm during an emotional conflict, perhaps to help its readers regain reason and control in heated business arguments. But of course arguments that escalate to that place where we become seething cauldrons occur in...
“We’ll always keep in touch, no matter what happens.” “I’ll never betray you, no matter what happens.” “I’ll always love you, no matter what happens.” These are things we all say in a moment of raw, intense feeling. We really mean the first part; boy do we mean it!...
Beach spiral 1, by Dishtwiner, at dishtwiner.deviantart.com You are so quiet, and then one day it happens. a sound, the way the earth creeps, a noticing. how a pebble turning changes the beginning of what you will one day tell your grandchildren is Your Life. a sound. the heart’s...
Over my life a particular memory visited me from time to time. Whenever it came, I always gave it its due attention. But it seemed to serve no purpose other than replaying a long ago hurt and, despite the gentler perspective granted with age and experience, always triggered the...
What’s wrong with navel-gazing anyway?
