It’s easy to get overwhelmed by competing priorities and obligations and when we can no longer find time to reflect we can end up in a reactive mode. I have tried to counter that by creating habits and have lately ended up in a scheduling practice that looks like this: I block out my scheduleContinue reading “A strategy for always maintaining space for the self”
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Christmas Day in a nuclear bunker in Moscow
I spent Christmas Day with some friends in Moscow. Designed and built after the first series of nuclear tests by the Soviet Union, these tests revealed that the optimum depth for the bunker’s silo must be no higher than 165 feet beneath ground in order to survive nuclear fallout intact. The task for the buildersContinue reading “Christmas Day in a nuclear bunker in Moscow”
