by Richard Fay | Jul 19, 2018 | Posts
We humans form a bunch of defences against pain, and most of them don’t work. One does. It’s a piece of genius that marks resilient, flourishing people. It’s called sublimation. Let me explain with a story. A friend of mine lost his son to a rare...
by Richard Fay | Apr 17, 2017 | Posts
There is an odd thing about nature; everything is quite adept at being what it is, except humans. I look out at everything growing so wild and faithfully beneath the sky and wonder why we are the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our flowering. (David...