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Amy Olberding

Tidy up all you want, but making it about ‘sparking joy’ is another misuse of Eastern ideas

There’s an all-too-familiar pattern to the Marie Kondo mania.

Amy Olberding
· Feb 21, 2019 · 11:30 pm
How we grieve: Is dealing with the death of an elder worse than that of a young person?

According to a Confucian idiom, the death of elders, that most commonplace of sorrows, is in fact life’s most disturbing intensity.

Amy Olberding
· Nov 28, 2017 · 11:30 pm