For the Living: Essays by Sami McKay

For the Living: Essays by Sami McKay

Series of essays as audio recordings. Check out the written forms on samimckay.com or follow my instagram for updates @samimckay

Episodes

November 10, 2025 6 mins

this one is allll about tenderness and making sense of it all


written essay is on samimckay.com


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this one's allll about visions and attribution, reclaiming our role in the unfolding of things, yk how it goes

read the full essay on my substack https://substack.com/@samimckay?


or on samimckay.com

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October 6, 2025 4 mins

this one is alll about building comfort despite the fleetingness of that which passes! shit matters because we're here to say that it does.


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https://samimckay.substack.com/


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IG: @samimckay TikTok @sami.mckay

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September 22, 2025 4 mins

this is about feeling small and making your world smaller through intentional joys


written essay is on samimckay.com


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September 8, 2025 5 mins

this one is allll about Joseph Campbell's concept of bliss and recognizing it's role in guiding us where we need to go.


written essay is on samimckay.com


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August 25, 2025 5 mins

this one is allll about the way we use our beliefs & stories to shape the world, and how we can use our storytelling to change our perspective.


full written essay on samimckay.com

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August 11, 2025 6 mins

this is an essay about not wanting to write an essay, discipline and learning from our lives when it's time to rest.

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July 14, 2025 3 mins

this one is allll about moving and changing definitions of home


read the written essay on samimckay.com

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June 30, 2025 3 mins

this is about goals in disguise and recognizing our desires when they arrive.

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June 15, 2025 7 mins

this one's all about the soul and how different beliefs change the way we feel about individuality and our interconnectedness.

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alright folks this one's alll about acceptance and how it's not at all like giving up, don't even THINK about giving up, just accept and move forward


find the written essay at samimckay.com

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May 19, 2025 2 mins

this is about forgetting and remembering gratitude

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May 5, 2025 4 mins

this is an essay about corporeality, presence, and physical sensation

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April 14, 2025 7 mins

this one's alllll about life's purpose and basically how bullshit it is. that's probably the best way to sum it up

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This is an essay about change, hidden movement, and stillness.

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March 14, 2025 3 mins

this one is on encountering & arrival

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February 24, 2025 7 mins

This essay is about using control to drive busyness, and to accidentally remove the possibility of rest.

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February 24, 2025 11 mins

This essay dives into ritual as a human behaviour and how we can use principles of love to obtain it in our daily life.

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This essay is on moderation as virtue as presented by Aristotle's golden mean

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November 25, 2024 6 mins

This essay is about sacred space, memory and connecting to history through place.

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