Field Notes

notes, photos, sketches, & asides

The Big Here

Dylan / 4/1/2020

There’s a “Long Now” foundation, devoted to cultivating a broader, more expansive and inclusive sense of time: “Now” could mean not just […]

Dylan / 3/27/2020

Anticipatory grief is the mind going to the future and imagining the worst. To calm yourself, you want to come

Dylan / 3/23/2020

“Imagine a boat of desperate refugees crossing the ocean. The boat gets caught in a storm and everyone panics. If

Dylan / 3/10/2020

surprisingly useful life advice from Arianna Huffington on LinkedIn

Dylan / 3/9/2020

All we need to do to find what connects us is to look down at the dirt beneath our feet.

Dylan / 3/9/2020

But more and more I am reminded of an older word: bodhicitta, Sanskrit for “awakened heart.” It is that moment

Dylan / 3/6/2020

It was—this was the secret, sudden thing—so delicious. Not knowing which way was which, or where the edges were. She

Dylan / 3/4/2020

half a moon and a crow’s glide fill the space between skyscrapers

Dylan / 3/3/2020

All formations are impermanent. They are subject to birth and death. But remove the notions of birth and death, and

Dylan / 2/26/2020

The way I work with these events in my own life is, I notice what occurs (and what I feel