Archives: August 2021

For all the glorious and infuriating complexity of the world we’ve created for ourselves, at an individual level most people have pretty simple desires. Almost none of us desire great fame and limitless power at any cost. The vast majority of us don’t even want to be absurdly wealthy or live lives of unyielding luxury.

In challenging times, moments of joy can be hard to come by. The very act of looking for those tiny glimpses and fragments of light breaking through the canopy of shadows is an act of defiance. Simply by looking for those pinpricks of light that break through a sky darkened with black and thundering clouds,