To be honest, I thought that I would feel more “changed” after the undertaking. It wasn’t a glorious ending, but I still feel motivated to do this again — in moderation. I plan on engaging with my old ...

There is an old paradox, retold by Anne Carson from Jorge Luis Borges, of an empire that created a map so precise it matched the depicted territory at a 1:1 scale. For an onlooker, the map became ...