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Meaning & purpose

Writing about the question of what you are living for, in everyday language, and the small things that carry meaning for you.

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An old wooden table in an old house with a bowl of hot rice giving off thin steam, chopsticks laid across it and a small singing bowl nearby
Spirituality

Want-Big-Meaning and Have-a-Meal

Friday evening, a design revised for the ninth time, and the question of what this work is for arrives again. Two voices talk, and neither makes the other go quiet.

Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read

An old wooden table in a quiet house, a small bronze bowl and a thin thread of incense smoke rising in dim midday light
Spirituality

Four Misunderstandings About "Purpose in Life"

Four lines that make people feel they lack a purpose: it must be big, clear, found once, bigger than small tasks. Each comes with something to try, and no promise to find it.

Oct 14, 2026 · 7 min read

Two hands resting on a steering wheel, early light coming through the windshield, a plain paper coffee cup on the dashboard
Spirituality

A Day of Writing Down When I Felt Useful

A fifty-year-old driver records one day on the road, only the moments he felt useful and the ones he did not. No grand meaning found, just a few small places.

Oct 9, 2026 · 4 min read