Category: Personal Essays
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Moving my Blog to Substack
As the title suggests, I’ve made the difficult decision to move most of my future blog posts over to Substack. Don’t worry if you have no clue what a substack is – basically it just means that I’ll be posting on a different website. But that also means if you want to continue receiving an…
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the strength to gamble
A few weeks ago, I started learning Tai Chi. Living near Sunset Park in Brooklyn, which has a large population of Chinese immigrants (and even its own Chinatown), I’ve always been intrigued when I see large groups practicing this slow, meditative martial art. In unison, their bodies twist and turn and their arms flow with…
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our untethered moments
We don’t always have to know where we’re going. But we are forced to choose what we want to do in each moment. Out of the options in front of us, in the here and now, what do we want? How can we tiptoe our way into the life we want to live? Somehow it…
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the eye of the storm
The quietness in the eye of the storm induces panic. It isn’t a time for resting, rather a time for preparing. Readying ourselves and getting into position, all the while trying to remind ourselves that resting actually is part of preparing for any demanding undertaking. After more than a year of intensive writing (plus a…
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the catalyst
We have been asked no, told to isolate with nothing to do but to confront ourselves. So used to turning outwards because it is our nature to Connect to Create to Build to Move But we forget it is also our nature to Reflect to Contemplate to Grow to Care The vagary…
Trynia Kaufman 