Essential Life Skills
Face the Essential Truths through Ulysses
Theme-by-theme chapter breakdowns of the essential life skills in this classic work. 6 deep dives tracing how James Joyce's story teaches skills you can use today.
Living Fully in the Present
Fry the kidney, feed the cat, and stay with the hour: lemon soap, Davy Byrne's, and nineteen streets at once.
Holding Grief Without Collapsing
Ride to Glasnevin thinking of Rudy's eleven days, then still buy soap and follow a drunk student home.
Understanding Your Inner Life
Walk Sandymount with Stephen, then sit through Molly's last chapter, which will not pause for punctuation.
Compassion Toward Ordinary People
Help the blind stripling across the street, then walk Stephen out of Nighttown instead of going home to a fight.
Finding Meaning Without Grand Narrative
Drink cocoa in the kitchen after Boylan has already been. No slaughter. A Thursday that still held a life.
Tolerating Ambiguity
Hold the brothel's ghosts, a catechism that will not name what Stephen is, and a yes that includes other men.