Reverie gets a bad rap, if it gets a rap at all. So often confused with dreams, and set aside in the shadows of the great dramas of life, reverie has little to show for itself in the annals of psychology. Bachelard took it upon himself to redeem reverie.
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Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher and phenomenologist who wrote and taught from the 1920’s until his death in 1962. The extent of the influence of his ideas is difficult to gauge and he is little known in the U.S., but in my mind he is essential to anyone who wishes to deeply understand […]

Recently I bought a new bike. I changed my context. In the world of bicycling, the change was fairly significant, from slow steel to fast carbon. But the most important changes for me personally came from the change of context. The new bike allowed me to enter a whole new world in terms of training […]