“We may live in an online world, but we have stone-age programming in our brains.” Billy Anderson Our comfort zone is the place where we are least likely to feel threatened or in danger — it is our safe place. We are all wired by instinct and evolutionary …
Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on to the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of spring — these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to bloom or …
Brecht Vandenbroucke – ‘Everyday We Walk a Thin Line’ Who are you? Answer without: name, job, media, things you’ve done, friends I came across this question recently, and after thinking about it for a while, it seemed that everything I could come up with fell under the categories of what not to include. Eventually, the …
Out of sight, out of mind. You’re probably familiar with this saying, largely because it tends to ring true. It’s easy to not worry about things that we don’t (or can’t) see. Ignorance is bliss, right? While this may be true sometimes, ‘less is more’ doesn’t usually apply when it comes to knowledge. Especially about …
When you consider how much we use and consume compared to how much we actually need, the amount of waste generated is often obscene. That is one reason I wrote a script about the tiny home movement and submitted it to the team at High Existence during a 6-month internship I recently completed with them. …
It wasn’t until 2011, when I was nineteen years old, that I had what I would argue is a good reason to use social media. That is when I took my first three-month trip overseas to go backpacking around Europe, and while I was away, Facebook became my primary tool for keeping in touch with …
I have epilepsy, and my story begins when I woke up in the hospital, where my parents brought me after I had at least five seizures. It was Friday, and I had planned to go spend the weekend on a houseboat with old mates from school, but the next thing I knew I was getting …
