This sixteenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “The Many Seasons of Healthy Relationships”. This will be the final episode of Season 1; we will be back with some exciting changes for Season 2, after a one-month break.

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As we grow and life evolves, our schedules change, our priorities shift, our responsibilities grow (or shrink?), and time we were once able to spend with our loved ones of old might be filled with other things, or even other people. In this episode, we discuss this idea of changing seasons, and if these natural changes should mean that our relationships end, or simply adapt.

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This fifteenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “The Spiritual Driver of the Physical World”.

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Hope is complicated, coming and going seemingly at random, sustaining us through hard times, maybe dragging us through even harder times when we simply want to quit- yet throughout the ages, a similar hope for a better future has remained. Without this hope, would we, as an entire human species, have perished? To this question, we have no answer- only more questions:

Where does this hope come from? Why does hope exist, where does it go when it is away, why does it leave, why does it return- and, most importantly, why does it still exist despite having remained unrealized since the dawn of humanity? What sustains this great sustainer of our inspiration?

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This fourteenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Corporate Life in a Warring World”.

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Life- not to mention work and mundane tasks- can feel obsolete during times of intense suffering. In our modern world, however, we have quite the conundrum: in order to sustain our individual survival, there is only one viable way for most people to do so, yet that pathway to survival itself sustains the wars ravaging our world today, keeping us suffering as a greater humanity, and making life feel obsolete. So we are stuck in a system that forces us to work, and uses our work against us. Though most people going to work every day in order to sustain their families do not support the reasons our leaders take us to war, our corporate jobs pay to keep the wars raging; by remaining productive in the corporate arena, we are being used by the war-mongers to fund wars, and we have no say. So what to do? Should we all quit our jobs and starve to death? Should we turn a blind eye to the greater effects our work has on the world, opting to simply bring home our paychecks and hope for the best? Something else? Well, we sure do not have all the answers, but in this episode of Our Evening Tea, we will be discussing this conundrum from as many angles as we can attack this issue from.

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This thirteenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Are my problems yours and yours mine?”.

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When problems arise in the world, the natural next step these days has become media coverage from all angles getting everyone riled up. Despite this vast media coverage- and our subsequent awareness and excitement regarding these issues- the question becomes to what extent we can actually do anything for any of these situations, not to mention all of them, and so how we should respond when bombarded by this over-abundance of bad news. In this episode, we talk about this issue, hoping to incite a discussion which can hopefully bring us all closer to healthily coping with this upsetting over-stimulation.

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This twelfth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Is AI poised to make people stupid?”.

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AI is a tool which makes almost everything easier- from low- to high-skill work tasks, content creation, daily chores, and more- but can our usage of this tool get out of hand, and if so, what might the repercussions of such usage be for us as a human race? What might a fully “plugged-in” future look like, and what can we do to mitigate damages already incurred, if such a future is one we do not collectively desire?

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This eleventh episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “What does it mean to be genuine?”.

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We as a society have been being bombarded lately with advice saying that we should embody our most authentic selves, by gurus claiming to have answers as to how to achieve such states of authenticity. But there might be a missing link: given the present state of the world, authenticity might look different than it would in an ideal world, and even abandoning our truest, deepest selves in exchange for safety might be the most genuine choice sometimes. Join us as we get to the bottom of this issue, and as we dance all around everything to do with being the most genuine version of ourselves we can be.

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Full audio episode, on if the things we do (good or bad) make a difference or not, can be found here: https://abeautifulgrind.substack.com/p/do-the-things-we-do-matter?r=4n8ykw

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This tenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Let’s Normalize: Weighted Judgment”.

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Nobody likes to be judged negatively for the personal choices we make, especially when our choices are not hurting others. However, maybe this propensity to judge our fellow human is based in some survival necessity, maybe it is not harmful and should be taken as fun, or maybe judgment is for some other reason and has some other effect. In this episode of Our Evening Tea, we dive deep into judgment- who, what, when, why, where, and how judgment happens and if it should or should not.

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This ninth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “We want to change the world, but…”.

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As children, we have big dreams of grand contributions we will make to society, and in what ways we might help to save the world from peril. As we grow, these dreams fade, and we join the rat race, or whatever other standardized ways of living we might fit into, which seem to directly contradict with our ability to realize our childhood dreams. However complete this spirit dampening and societal normalization might seem, we hold onto our childhood dreams in subtle ways, whether in the careers we choose, the content we create, the ways we help to lead or guide those around us, and generally how we live our lives, albeit more structured in the adult world. In this episode of Our Evening Tea, we talk about this and more, as we try to get closer to answers about if we can have an impact on the world, and if so, how, and if we can not know for certain, what we should do in lieu of certainty.

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This eighth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Traveling as a Growth Serum”.

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World travel and exploration can be more than just vacation, or entertainment. Exploring the world is to explore culture, and exploring culture is to explore our fellow humans sharing this life with us. Through travel- especially immersive travel- we learn about how different people live in different places, in turn expanding our capacity for care, sympathy, and love. Having come from entirely different backgrounds, yet having met and started a family together, we have traveled extensively since meeting 10 years ago, and in this episode of Our Evening Tea, we divulge some of our takeaways.

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