acuriousroute

Tag: writing

  • Eight Things Humans Can Learn from Cats

    Cats obviously experience the world differently and have a very different social map from ours. Yet some of their instincts and boundaries seem like they should come more naturally to us. Here are eight things I’ve noticed from living alongside them that we might learn from. One – Needs. Often, they have no shame or qualms…

  • Are We Living in a More Hostile World, Or Are We Seeing More of It?

    I have been considering this daily while deliberately dipping a toe in and out of catastrophe-focused news headlines, and a semi-awareness of how my true-crime-skewed Netflix algorithm is both fed by, yet subtly nudging me towards a social weariness and vigilance. A common situational thread I have noticed recently in my therapy work is a collective sense of disillusionment…