What if I made a manifesto? I, Adaia Shumsky, hereby vow to not eat junk food ever again. It sounds more like a pledge. A manifesto is...

Ok. I vow not to inflict hurt anymore. Never again. Can I do that? Why not? :) I have a safe place inside me. A place reserved. It's...

If (Assuming) this addiction/tendency was passed down from one generation to the next, it's ridiculous to think the earlier generations...

If I don't surround myself with people wiser than me, I will decay. I like to complain when someone disagrees with me or challenges me to...

My previous blog made me realize I don't remember junior high school very well. Shocking. I wanted to use terms derived from the...

I could listen to music. I could do some of my newfound Pilates. I don't even know what that word means. And yet I am highly affected by...

Either I’m hard wired to abuse myself or the outside stimuli are truly addictive, overpowering my better nature. I may be able to change,...

What if I do the right things (eating, behavior, relationships) for the wrong reasons. Or at least not very good reasons. And what if I...

Sitting with the complexity of your inner thoughts and firings. Observing your environment from the perspective of a mammal, a human...

If he has limitations, then I have limitations. Does that make things a bit easier, or harder? Does it depend on the veracity of the...

OCTOBER 7, 2019 I realized that I’m always looking for that feeling of playing a concerto (in front of an orchestra). I use all manner of...

I love death. I used to talk on it quite a lot. I’m sure of it. That is why I love certain things. They summon it up. Staying up into the...

Maybe people know their death is impending because of my theory. Maybe you feel the juxtaposition of wisdom and death. You have aha...

I did have a theory. It is that life is like the end of One Hundred Years Of Solitude. If you’re lucky, that is. You have all of your...