Lee Smith, ND

Seth’s Blog

• The imprecision of “am”
  I am 41 years old is a very different statement than I am a vegan. In the first case, there’s not a lot you can do about your “am”. It is an accurate description of a state of affairs over which you have no control. In the second, it simply describes a choice. Anyone who […]
• And it bends toward justice
  Superman could bend steel with his bare hands. Along the way, we’ve been sold on the idea that difficult tasks ought to be left to heroes, often from somewhere far away or from long ago. That it’s up to them, whoever ‘them’ is. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted Theodore Parker: “The arc of […]
• Everyone is doing their best
  What if that’s not actually true? Perhaps it’s more useful to consider that in every moment, on every project, no one is actually doing their best. Because there’s always a need to hold a little bit in reserve. Because there are always competing priorities. Because everyone has a noise in their head. Because there’s fear, […]