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integrating my inner and outer worlds

Mark Ryden, Chroma Structure (#113), 2015 It’s no accident that the word experience contains the root per, meaning “to try, risk,” from the Latin experiri, which gave us experiment, empirical, and peril. Experience is full of risk. I’m coming off the high of an extremely social weekend. I used to time-box social activities by getting a rough sense, before heading out, of when the event will wrap up and when I’ll be home. This is especially true if the event has a lot of unknowns. For example, if the people, activities or environment is unfamiliar, I need a lot more fuel in the tank than I…

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