Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you.

when it seems like giving up, then it seems like rising up

America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness…

Bloom of adulthood. Try a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you remember. Cloudless May day. She joins you in the little summerhouse. Entirely of logs. Both larch and...