cracks in the labyrinth
            In the episode “Where There Is a Will” of This American Life, producer David Kestenbaum wrestles with the possibility that
        
     
    
            
    
        
        
    
        the garden of forking paths
            This Tuesday at last I got my hands on a book I had waited years to read: Agency, the sequel
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
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            When I told a friend that I long to create a spacious container (i.e., an orderly home and routines)
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        paying attention to dreams
            Long ago, before I took up Zen practice, I considered taking up witchcraft. Old longings stirred in me as I
        
     
    
            
    
        
        
    
        staying on topic
            I started reading Pattern Recognition last Thursday evening and finished reading Zero History, the last novel in the Blue Ant
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        feeling my way out of the miasma
            The heading that opens the second chapter of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, “Start by discarding,
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        am i really here?
            I took the dream as a warning.