Why does being silly work when nothing else does?

THE HOLY SANDBOX · WEEKLY

Dignity is the only currency your ego has. You cannot think your way out of it. Shaking, daft noises, crawling about — those get underneath it in about forty seconds.

The full piece is written in Sanity as Portable Text and rendered into this reader. Publishing it in the CMS drops it here and queues the short clips that come out of it.

You are not broken. You are just carrying sixty pounds of adult dignity and wondering why your arms hurt.

Every essay comes with an audio companion, a matching thing to try with your hands, and a card from the deck — so it does not stay an argument.