Madison Asher

What does it mean to “stay informed”?  These days, it’s almost impossible NOT to stay informed. We are constantly inundated with information, so to “stay informed” has little to do with exposure and much more to do with choice. We are being informed whether we choose to be or not. The deluge of information won’t stop, so I’ve begun to wonder how else we can approach information? Rather than encourage staying informed (ie. gain more pieces of information), we can “prioritize the art of...

We will always have our problems. Our issues, our concerns, our troubles, our worries, they’re not going anywhere. They may change shape over time, sure, just like energy that can neither be created nor destroyed but can change form. Rather than trying to eradicate them, how else can we approach them to feel that we’re somehow progressing?  Perhaps we begin to inquire further about how we’re being  in them as a reference point for discovering our growth.  We’re bound to experience conflict...

Many of us have probably heard of comparative suffering. In short, it’s the idea that we compare our suffering to others’ suffering to help us better make sense of our own pain, and ultimately we find that we often downplay our experiences. We may compare the extent to which we allow ourselves to suffer based on comparing our particular circumstances to others’ (we may deem that death of a loved one allows us to suffer more than totaling our car for example). I want to discuss, however, the...