Joy on drugs vs. joy while sober

How a Chinese Medicine perspective can help free us from the hamster wheel of ecstatic highs and plummeting lows

I grew up in woods surrounded by cornfields. My best friend Kim and her little brother Tom lived down the street. Weekend days and vacation days were spent in her woods or mine, and when the snows came one winter, we spent hours taking turns with the toy skis they’d gotten that Christmas.

Staying upright on yellow plastic strapped to sneakers was diffic…