Essays by Sami McKay

Sami McKay

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

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I've been here once before

I've been here once before

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

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I've been here once before

I've been here once before

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

Fuck, I'm stuck in the tree: Perceived Satisfaction and Escapism

Fuck, I'm stuck in the tree: Perceived Satisfaction and Escapism

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

Make like a tree and leave

Make like a tree and leave

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

It's a dog's life

It's a dog's life

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

You're the GOAT

You're the GOAT

This essay explores the symbol of the Scapegoat. Full written essay is available on samimckay.com

This essay explores space as a normative aspect of life that typically goes undetected. The full written essay is available on samimckay.com

This essay looks to the concept of adulthood, experience and feeling behind. The written essay can be found on samimckay.com

If that's magic, so are you

If that's magic, so are you

This essay explores the connection between wish-making, magical thinking and self-doubt. The written essay can be found on samimckay.com

Sun showers and sense-making

Sun showers and sense-making

This essay looks into the process of sense making in the context of nature and sacred space. By exploring Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature (1836) this essay asks what it means to find meaning in the natural world.

No time like the present! Desire and radical acceptance

No time like the present! Desire and radical acceptance

This essay dives deeper into the concept of desire and it's ability to foster tension and discomfort in our daily lives.

Life's a Highway (or something like that): Ghent and Surrender

Life's a Highway (or something like that): Ghent and Surrender

This essay explores Emmanuel Ghent's 1990 essay Masochism, Submission, Surrender: Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender, in the context of perpetuating and accepting violent behaviours.

It's really not like that

It's really not like that

An essay about viewing our circumstances as personal, detangling religiosity, perceptivity, and exploring the wider context of our being.

Listen up, kids!

Listen up, kids!

An essay about utilizing a childlike lens, approaching life with a sense of newness, curiosity, and reframing our lives into those of students.

It doesn't really matter but it kinda really does

It doesn't really matter but it kinda really does

An essay reflecting on the (in)significance of moments, our lives, and our impermanence. Read the essay on samimckay.com and follow @samimckay on Instagram