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

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


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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


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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


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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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This essay addresses the concept of longing and perceived eventual satisfaction as a mode of escapism where one explores future goal gratification as a way of coping with present discomfort. The full written essay is available on samimckay.com

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September 30, 2024 9 mins

This essay explores letting go and the changing of seasons. Find the full written essay on samimckay.com

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September 30, 2024 7 mins

This essay looks to perceptibility as an opportunity to develop or exchange meanings. Full written essay is available on samimckay.com

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