Sweet Sweet Chain, Part 4: So...What's the Verdict? Can we Evolve?

DO WE HAVE AGENCY?

And so going back to that original question from part one: what is that menacing force that sucks us into doing or feeling what we have decided time and again we don’t want to do or feel? Have we any agency over our own brains and bodies? One answer is: no, we have no agency. Our brain chemistry, our genetic makeup, our experiences in our families, our experiences in our societies, all of these are elements outside of our control...

Sweet Sweet Chain, Part 5: A Comic Strip, My Healing Process, and an Ending

ON MY PROCESS OF HEALING AND CHANGE…

One windy morning, stuck in traffic, I see a bird. The bird attempts to fly but the wind is blowing in the opposite direction so the bird remains suspended in the same spot flapping its wings but going nowhere. I imagine that there is a chain locked around the bird’s neck, the chain attached to an anvil in the dirt, that is restricting this bird from soaring, that is stopping the bird from reaching the heights it could reach without the chain.