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Playing Crash
A few weeks back, I participated in a Firefly-based live-action role-playing airsoft game. I was Crash. The pilot of a ship that had touched down on a backwater planet to do some smuggling. Around me were many of my friends, but they too had strange names and new roles. We […]

You can imagine that there are two ways of moving through life. In the one, we live in a world of fixed ideas, while in the other, we live in a world of pure existence. In the first way, our lives are full of anxiety, because the real world never quite matches up […]

Or, ‘How We’re So Afraid of Dying (or Getting Hurt, or Getting Fat, or Losing Our Money, or Having Someone Look At Us Funny) That We Forget to Live’
When I was in grade school, my friends and I would get on our bikes, arm ourselves with garbage-can tops and heavy sticks, and joust each […]