by Kim Ort | Aug 15, 2020 | Attention, Compassion, Contemplation, Curiosity, Essence, Photography
For the next little while, I’m reposting content from my archive that I think is relevant for today. In 2014, I launched a course in visual journaling with Sally Gentle Drew. It’s now available as an on-demand course. Below is the post that introduced the course....
by Kim Ort | Oct 25, 2017 | Compassion, Contemplation, Humility, Possibilities, Practices, Topics
I’ve been studying and practicing stoicism recently. If you’re like most people, you may have a picture of a stoic as someone with a stiff, upper lip and not having emotions. This is a misunderstanding. Stoicism as a philosophy goes back to the 3rd century...
by Kim Ort | May 10, 2017 | Belonging / Connection, Compassion, Contemplation, Seeing
Empathy is “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” I learned about the origin of this word in this Brain Pickings article. To summarize, the word empathy came into being in the late 1860’s when philosopher Theodor Lipps...
