At the end of June I temporarily departed workaday life to go on an adventure. Back in the winter of 2022, I waitlisted for a 10-day Vipassana meditation course at the nearest center to me, across the state in the western Massachusetts town of Shelburne. I think I heard about Vipassana from two sustainability people:… Continue reading A 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Course: The Adventure
Category: Living
Soup
Hello friends! I’ve been encouraged to provide my Soup powerpoint (circa 2022) in a more easily accessible location, so I’ve converted it to blog post form. Enjoy! bean soup or becoming a better person through soup (Updated Spring 2023) I’m going to break it down, easy as soup. Table of contents 1. What I do… Continue reading Soup
A Conversation with Chuck
Creative Health Food Store is a small store on 108th and Broadway, sandwiched between the row of small stores that occupy the first story of The Manhasset, a century-plus old apartment building that occupies the block. I started shopping there in my senior year at Columbia because I was getting into beans and out of… Continue reading A Conversation with Chuck
Project Pack Out
Over the past year or so, I’ve gotten much more aware of the trash problem. But even as I compost, buy my food in bulk, and wouldn’t be caught dead with a disposable coffee cup, it’s still all too easy to order a packaged delivered, grab an office snack, and let the associated garbage vanish… Continue reading Project Pack Out
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