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Troy Dayton

Remembering bell hooks

About six years ago I fell in love.

5 min readDec 18, 2021

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Remembering bell hooks

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Troy Dayton

Creating Petri Dishes For Connection

Subtle changes in conditions can wake up latent magical connections with strangers.

2 min readNov 20, 2021

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Creating Petri Dishes For Connection

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Troy Dayton

Don’t Fit In

Fitting in takes a lot of work. And not fitting in takes a lot of work. But discovering who you really are over and over again and then…

1 min readJul 25, 2021

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Don’t Fit In

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Troy Dayton

Role to Role or Soul to Soul

“I’ll make believe you are who you think you are if you make believe I am who I think I am.” — Ram Dass

1 min readJul 25, 2021

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Role to Role or Soul to Soul

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Troy Dayton

The Awkwardness Paradox

The Awkwardness Paradox: You must get OK with awkwardness in order to have less of it. Your discomfort with awkwardness…is partly the…

1 min readJul 25, 2021

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The Awkwardness Paradox

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Troy Dayton

Who Is Pulling Your Strings

Let the part of you that is pulled by strings be pulled by them. That’s what that part does.

1 min readJul 25, 2021

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Who Is Pulling Your Strings

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Troy Dayton

A Symphony of Feet: Silence With Others

Something I wrote while at a retreat at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center:

1 min readJul 25, 2021

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A Symphony of Feet: Silence With Others

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Troy Dayton

If You Only Knew How Beautiful You Are

If you only knew what a remarkably beautiful creature you are, then yours and others ugliness, denial, neuroses, anger, projections and…

1 min readJul 25, 2021

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If You Only Knew How Beautiful You Are

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Troy Dayton

Is That Song Stuck In Your Head Just Random?

While sometimes “a cigar is just a cigar,” there may be hidden clues behind your earworms.

2 min readNov 8, 2020

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Is That Song Stuck In Your Head Just Random?

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Troy Dayton

Please meet Humdinger

After a day of hiking, the sun had gone down and I needed to find a place for me, my two kittens, and our RV to sleep.

7 min readAug 26, 2020

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Please meet Humdinger

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Troy Dayton

Troy Dayton

I spent decades getting people out of physical prisons by legalizing drugs. Now I help people out of their own mental and emotional prisons.

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