Garden of Anxiety
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The People Who Care Most About Celebrating Their Birthdays Are The People You Should Care Least About I hate birthday people. The Insta-story reposters and 3-day-birthday-weekenders who go out of their way to make sure that everyone knows that they’re still alive. God-forbid they realize that most of us don’t care. I know I sound like a curmudgeon, the Scrooge of birthdays…
Last Week, I Brought An Anti-Semitic Dessert to My Jewish Aunt's HouseLast Saturday, I was in Boca eating dinner at my Great Aunt Barbara’s. She's 89. Seven years ago, her husband passed away. A few years later, Barbara had a stroke that limited her ability to use her right arm. It also messed up her speech. “Yesses” and “Nos,” she’s now mastered…
I Took Ayahuasca to Fix a Health ProblemSix months ago, I sat outside, on a wooden deck in the mountains, across from a white dude with a man bun. “Do you actually think this can fix me?” I asked him. The man went by “Kapétt,” a name he picked up while studying indigenous culture in a Peruvian forest, though his legal…
