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essay · 4 min · Sep 01, 2026
There is a silence that empties you out and a silence that fills you back up, and for a long time I could not tell the difference between them. This is about learning to — mostly by getting it wrong, in a small flat, over one very long winter.
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The year everything went quiet
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Why we stopped sending a weekly digest
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Simple mindfulness for genuinely loud days
practice
Music, faith, and the healing brain
insight
On being unreachable for one hour
essay
What contemplatives knew about the nervous system
insight
The difference between resting and collapsing
essay
A short defence of doing nothing badly
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How we record the ambient library
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“Rest is not the reward for finishing. It is part of the work, and it is also not work at all.”
March
“You cannot think your way out of a body that has decided it is in danger. You can only breathe your way down to it.”
January
“Everyone wants the calm without the boredom. The boredom is the door.”
April
“A day is not a container to be filled. Some days it is a room to be sat in.”
February
“Notice how much of what you call thinking is just rehearsing a conversation that will never happen.”
June
“The opposite of anxious isn’t calm. It’s interested.”
May
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