Month: December 2017
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When you hear the Cosmos calling, what do you do?
Most probably, panic. Then panic again. “The Cosmos is all that is, or was, or ever will be.” That’s the opening of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series, and of a book that has the same title. A few years ago, when I felt really stuck, this book opened my eyes to a whole Universe of wonder. For the first time […]
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Why would anyone jump into a freezing cold lake? There’s at least one good reason why.
This weekend I learned a great deal about what courage is. It’s knowing that scuba diving in freezing cold water is an absolutely awful and unpleasant experience because you’ve just learned it firsthand, and then still choosing to do the same fucking awful thing again the next day because you’ve signed up for it. And choosing to do it with a smile. Why would anyone go diving in freezing cold water? For a while I was wondering why I’m doing this to myself. Yet somehow out of all the possible ways to spend a December weekend I chose to get my ass wet in a freezing cold lake.
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