The Bodega at the End of the Internet

“Anyway, nothing’s changed since the Stone Age. It’s just that nobody realizes that. In the final analysis, we’re all animals,”

Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

He felt oddly empty now that he no longer had the key to work on—purposeless and directionless.

If you want to become whole,

let yourself be partial.

If you want to become straight,

let yourself be crooked.

If you want to become full,

let yourself be empty.

If you want to be reborn,

let yourself die.

If you want to be given everything,

give everything up.

The Master, by residing in the Tao,

sets an example for all beings.

Because he doesn’t display

We are all, no doubt, born for a wise purpose

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

—Albert Camus

So the next time you encounter economic data, pay close attention to exactly what is being measured. Because we’re currently in the ‘choose-your-own adventure’ phase of our ‘silent’ recession: you can choose to reckon with the reality that a majority of Americans are struggling economically or you can cling to the truth that billionaires and

What stories are we telling ourselves? What are we sowing into the world when we speak?