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Sprezzatura. Say it out loud. Spreh-za-TOO-rah. Let it sit in your mouth for a second. Sounds like something you'd want to eat, or drink, or steal. By the time you get to that last syllable your hand is already moving on its own, thumb...
On the theft of original thought and my fury at those who caused it. There are many times throughout the week when I purposely leave my phone at home or in the car, and certain situations where I simply refuse to take it out of my...
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a château in Bordeaux with a round stone tower attached to it. He was thirty-eight, newly retired from public life, gutted...
For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent logical pretzels over whether beings of pure incorporeal intelligence, massless and shadowless and wholly unbothered by...
Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in early sobriety, a committed atheist, unable to square the program's spiritual language with anything I recognized as true....
A note before you read. This is an experiment. I've spent years accumulating ideas, knowledge, and ways of thinking about risk, ego, the body, the noise in your own head, the difference between a life you choose and one that chooses you....
A note before you read—this is an experiment. I've spent years accumulating ideas, learning, and ways of thinking about risk, ego, the body, the noise in your own head, the difference between a life you choose and one that chooses you....
I was channel surfing late one night when I came across a local news story about a guy who builds jet turbines for the Air Force at the USAF Research Laboratory in Ohio. Interesting, sure, but what really got my attention was the man's...
Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastrophe we're currently living through. The Democrats did this. Not entirely, not exclusively, and most probably, not...
Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastrophe we're currently living through. The Democrats did this. Not entirely, not exclusively, and most probably, not...
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that progress comes from having good answers. That smart people solve problems. That the world moves forward by identifying...
I Can't Seem to Let The Graystones (and a Few Others) Go. And Why They Matter More Than Ever The internet used to be... (name your sunshine) ...✨ ...💜 ...fun ...useful ...inspiring ...liberating ...connecting …collaborative...
This post is excerpted from a letter to my daughter on her 18th birthday. What does a dad say to his beloved daughter on her 18th birthday? He probably starts with the obvious by wishing her a Happy Birthday. Not exactly groundbreaking,...
In fragile hierarchies, the sharpest blades are often polished with concerned empathy. I recently came across a fascinating series of studies about women who disguise negative gossip as concern. Instead of hearing, "Sophie's a mess," you...
i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's what we do. She goes, I help get her ready to go. It's my way of staying close while saying goodbye. The winter break...