The Virtue of Constraint
Epictetus taught that the essence of freedom lies not in having every option at our disposal, but in mastering the few that are truly ours. We often mistake abundance for power, believing that if we could only reach further or possess more,…
Echoes in the Stone
I walked past the old library downtown this morning, the one with the heavy brass doors that always stick. I used to go there every Saturday as a kid, tracing the carvings on the pillars while waiting for my mom. Today, I stopped to look at…
The Weight of Small Repairs
Epictetus famously reminded his students that we are not disturbed by things themselves, but by the views we take of them. When a tool fails or a plan falters, the immediate impulse is to view the disruption as a tragedy, a fracture in the…