jrdreistadt
Three Daily Rituals to Restore Wellbeing
As a person who all too often feels overwhelmed with the stresses of everyday life, I have found it helpful to incorporate three rituals...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 20, 2015
- 2 min
40 for 40 #3: Beautiful Bathroom
When I first moved into my 150 year old house almost eight years ago, I immediately began the process of cleaning up and updating the...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 18, 2015
- 2 min
I’ll Sleep On It (Or At Least I’ll Try)
I have always had a precarious relationship with sleep. The bliss of restful sleep has eluded me since I broke a dependency on a life...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 16, 2015
- 3 min
Brilliant, Beautiful, and Bipolar
This post originally appeared at Huffington Post on 5/26/15. I feel most comfortable in a classroom. Whether I am the instructor or...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 12, 2015
- 1 min
40 for 40 #2: An Evening with Andre
OK, so it wasn’t the first time I had ever seen Andre Watts. Nor was it the first time I ever saw him at New Jersey Performing Arts...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 11, 2015
- 2 min
Interconnected Self-Sufficiency
The concepts of interconnectedness and self-sufficiency may, at first, seem incompatible. Interconnectedness implies that all living...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 9, 2015
- 1 min
Self-Deception
Inauthenticity is a faint, futile fugue that robs life of its mystery and meaning. Yet, social survival compels us to hide, to shift, and...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 7, 2015
- 1 min
The Very Best of the Activist’s Muse
As I started submitting fewer and fewer posts to The Activist’s Muse, a blog I published through The Fruition Coalition for about year,...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 6, 2015
- 1 min
Letters to a Young Activist: Anger
We live in a world full of injustice and despair. I suspect that, at least in part, your anger has led you to conceptualize and co-create...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 5, 2015
- 1 min
40 for 40 #1: Joan Osborne
Last summer, when listening to various tracks on my MP3 player while on a road trip, my mother mentioned that she loved Joan Osborne’s...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 4, 2015
- 2 min
I Was Happier When I Was Depressed
I sometimes think that I was happier when I was depressed. I recently found a journal from 2006 and 2008, with an almost two-year gap...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 2, 2015
- 2 min
The Lonely Life of a Writer
Writing is a solitary enterprise and that, overall, suits me just fine. After a day at work surrounded by other people, love them though...
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jrdreistadt
- May 30, 2015
- 2 min
Hungry Muse, Naughty Muse
I yearn to create writing that is imaginative, playful, honest, and luscious — and to do so on a consistent basis. Writing is not only an...
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jrdreistadt
- May 28, 2015
- 2 min
Bibliophilia
I love to read. An early precocious reader, I worked my way through chapter books in kindergarten and by the end of elementary school,...
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jrdreistadt
- May 26, 2015
- 2 min
A Rainbow a Day
Diets suck…the life out of our days, the days out of our years. Anything that is restrictive in such a way can only have short-lived,...
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jrdreistadt
- May 23, 2015
- 2 min
Art for the Masses
A few years ago, when visiting a major museum in the Mid-Atlantic area which shall remain unnamed, I was absolutely mortified when an...
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jrdreistadt
- May 20, 2015
- 2 min
70 Generations
There is an Iroquois doctrine which states that people ought to take into consideration the potential impact that their actions could...
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jrdreistadt
- May 18, 2015
- 2 min
Hidden Rainbows
When driving home from work one evening, I saw a beautiful rainbow stretch across the sky. As I approached the stop light which granted...
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jrdreistadt
- May 15, 2015
- 2 min
Carpe Diem
People have been seizing the day since Horace offered this delicious phrase to the world in 23 BCE. Yet over time, we intuitively fall...
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