What if I wrote a book about Freedom from Self-Improvement? After talking to Keri Smith last week – every month I invite a wise person to have a conversation with us at the Comfort Cafe – I started to dream of a Keri-style book about getting free from this insidious idea there is something to [...]

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A sometimes Wednesday happening in which I dissolve posting flummoxia by posting a a jambalaya, a comfort basket, a wiry fankle (a Scottish word that means a tangle or a state of confusion), a bit of this and tad of that. As you probably know, Freedom from Self-Improvement was last week and I humbly submit it was as blustery [...]

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Declaration of Freedom From Self-Improvement When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to dissolve the emotional, physical and spiritual bonds that have connected us to struggle, self-doubt, self-judgment and lack of self-trust through a pernicious intent to improve upon ourselves. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created [...]

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