I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity
In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.
The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.
How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?
Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment.
The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.
There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.