Coming Full Cycle
I don’t yet drive but I’ve been driven plenty, and my drivers often subscribe to a creed that goes something like this: The road’s too small for cars and cyclists to coexist. The car is the fastest mode of...
Clothing Optional
COVER: Why was nudism such a big thing in the 1970s? Was it a reaction to repressive American mid-century modern conformity? A rejection of Puritanical prudery? Part of the new health and fitness phenomenon? Or just the latest fad?...
These Truths
In the introduction to her marvelous single volume political history of the United States—These Truths: A History of the United States (2018)—historian Jill Lepore shares a documented moment which illustrates the very nature of the founding of our country....
Finding Freedom in Discipline
One of my very first spiritual teachers would often use this phrase in his teachings: “There is freedom in discipline.” I was in my early twenties, and every time he would say it, I could feel this childish disgruntled...
What’s Bugging You?
Synanthropic Insects Are at Home in Our Homes It has fifteen pairs of improbably long legs, faceted eyes that can see the ultraviolet spectrum, and it’s a voracious hunter, pouncing upon its prey with amazing speed and subduing it...
Reprogramming Into Joy
I laugh a lot these days. It’s not because my life is easy. I’m here fumbling around in this human body trying to make sense of it all, just like everybody else. There’s nothing special about me, and yet...
Birkenstock It to Me
“Crunchy Topanga hippies wearing their Birkenstocks,” conjures an image of a Topangan, anywhere from 1966 through the present day, enjoying life in comfortable shoes. I’m sitting here next to the editor of TNT as I write this introduction. I’m...
SOLE MATES
Who’s that walkin’ round here? Mercy, sounds like baby patter Baby elephant patter, that’s what I calls it Say, up in Harlem at a table for two There were four of us: me, your big feet, and you From...
Fourth of July
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these...
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