How many times in your life have you been called ‘intense’? With the clear implication that there is immediately something wrong with you?Me - countless times! My lizard brain response would probably be, ‘Oh yeah? And you are shallow!’Of course, my higher mental functions won’t allow me such rebukes. But if it were at least the ‘You are this and I am that’ kind of conversation, instead of the allusive hint to the damaged goods of one’s being!Feeling ‘intense’ after the argument, I proceeded to look up a true definition of the word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and this is what I found.Intense:Existing to…

Today I would like to write about moments of defeat and injustice that we all experience from time to time. My friend recently lost a roof over her head with a fine on top due to a pesky neighbour and the ruthlessness of bureaucratic machinery. A tarotist that I admire has been feeling under the weather due to ongoing sciatica pain. I have recently felt defeated because the fruits of my labour haven’t been appreciated in the way that I hoped for. In the morning, I came across a comment from a man who has clearly lost many of the safety nets of…

I don’t own a smartphone. I have been avoiding social networks for as long as I can remember. And yet, a couple of weeks ago, I launched my website, and this very afternoon I made an executive decision to start my YouTube channel! ‘‘Who are you?” said the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” “What do you mean by that?” said the caterpillar sternly.…