Archive for the 'Best Of' Category

• 2.6.06 "The friends who come and go from our lives" is posted in Best Of, Friendship, Reflections

This weekend I visited Andrew, who never ceases to impress me with his ambition and intensity. He’s one my most consistent friends, even though he’s on the other side of the country. On the way back from the trip I spent a couple hours on the phone with someone in another state who I can’t seem to stop talking to. And I returned to find a letter from an old friend who surprised me by saying goodbye.

In our twenties it seems like we cycle through people, (more…)

• 8.11.04 "Finding Meaning and Letting Go" is posted in Best Of, Quote/Lyric, Relationships

One of the central points of The Unbearable Lightness of Being is that we choose to create our own coincidences. At a certain point we not only recognize things but decide to tie them to our poetic memory. Random facts of no consequence suddenly take on meaning and we then find ourselves building significance from a chain of circumstance. As Kundera puts it, “when the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” (more…)

• 8.5.04 "If I’ve Learned Anything #4–And Breaking Tradition" is posted in Best Of, Reflections

I’ve learned that everyone needs to be alone sometimes. (more…)