by KimBoo York | Mar 19, 2015 | Ponderings
I posted a link to an article that really resonated with a lot of people I know. It talks about the confusion of not having a set, clear path in front you, and how we often shape our lives by the decisions we’ve made in the past rather than our expectations for the...
by KimBoo York | Feb 1, 2015 | Ponderings
I’ve had different conversations with different friends lately about the idea of artist communes, which kind of makes my skin itch because I’m just not that much of a hippy. Yet I’ve been enamored for decades now with the “new” concept of cohousing*, which...
by KimBoo York | Jan 10, 2015 | Life and all That, Ponderings
Body dysmorphia is more than “not seeing reality in the mirror”, in fact, it’s a far more holistic disorder than that. I’m not sure I clinically suffer from it, but the symptoms resonate with my experience: Preoccupation with your physical...
by KimBoo York | Apr 22, 2014 | Ponderings
I am in the stupendously unique and enviable position of deciding not to go out to dinner too often in order to save money for travel plans I have later in the year. That may sound odd, as doing something so basic as “saving my pennies” seems like a very elemental...
by KimBoo York | Jan 1, 2014 | Ponderings
This rant brought to you by a recent post at Wil Wheaton’s tumblr, quoting Merlin Mann (most of you know Merlin as the self-help guru; I remember him as one of the long-haired hippies living off of Palm Court at New College, and I’m pretty sure he...
by KimBoo York | Dec 26, 2013 | Life and all That, Ponderings
Recently on tumblr I stumbled over an art project by James Marquis called “Under the Wires”, photographs taken of places underneath the towering power line cables that criss-cross the country. Images like this are striking: But what struck me, what STOPPED...