Matter Matters

Why are kids drawn to stories about orphans? Has childhood always been the way it is now? Writer and historian Dixie Dillon Lane talks to Tsh about two books + two places that have shaped her.* The Hollow | Dixie Dillon Lane on Substack* Dixie’s book, Skipping School: A History o ...  Show more

When you can’t do the ideal, but you can still do something, what’s the good-enough version? That’s the partial solution. Sounds simple, but it’s really hard to enact.This episode embodies a partial solution because it’s a departure from the usual episodes. But done > perfect, ev ...  Show more

Friends, all three of our readings Sunday speak of a primordial spiritual truth—namely, the need to detach oneself from the goods of the world. This has nothing to do with a hatred of the world or a puritanical spirituality of flight from the world; rather, it has to do with k ...

Friends, George Harrison once sang, “All things must pass; all things must pass away.” Almost every major religious figure and philosopher the world over has intuited this great truth about our world. It’s good, and there are good things in it—a beautiful sunset, an enjoyable ...

The readings for this weekend have a tremendous cohesiveness. They all speak to a truth about our world that is hard to take in, that has to be repeated to each generation afresh, a truth that many older people have an easier time understanding than young people: nothing in this ...  Show more

all the great wisdom cultures draw our attention to our helplessness to the force of time / all your money won't another minute buy / the 3 modes of material nature - without our knowledge, external influences are working their way into your mind / basically, we're all like de ...