Eight Simple Rules for a Better World
Today I was volunteering at a community free clinic that was being held in a Boy Scout lodge on the grounds of a Methodist church. It’s a…
Health and Wellness
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Building a Bigger Life Around the Pain
You can’t get rid of painful memories. They’re not stains you can scrub away or files you can delete. They’re part of the structure now; like knots…
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From Neighbors to Corporations: How We Lost the Directness of Living
I sometimes think we’ve all ended up working for a sort of ghost. Not the rattling-chains, moaning-through-the-wall kind, but something maybe worse: a superior who doesn’t even…
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The Three Adjectives That Shape a Fulfilled Life
I was speaking with a friend not long ago, someone who spends his hours alongside me in the work we call charity. He told me that he…
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Alone Together: How Technology Connects Us While Making Us Lonely
Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together is one of those books that hangs around in your mind long after you’ve closed it, not because of any particular shocking revelation,…
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From Birds to Banks: What Nature Can Teach Us About True Wealth
It has always seemed to me that nature, in her quiet dignity, never once conceived of interest rates or compound debt, and yet she manages her affairs…
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The Man Who Quit Money: What Daniel Suelo’s Radical Life Teaches Us About Freedom
In The Man Who Quit Money, Mark Sundeen follows the radical life experiment of Daniel Suelo, a man who in 2000 walked away from his last thirty…
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You Can’t Get Enough of What You Don’t Need: The Real Secret to Happiness
There’s a saying I came across recently, probably in one of the thousands of YouTube videos that I tend to get lost in: You can never get…
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Why Living in Balance with the World Makes Sense
Thomas Sowell once said there are no solutions, only trade offs. That thought hits hard because it feels both frustrating and freeing at the same time. We…
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Eric Hoffer Was Right: Rudeness Is Just Weakness in Disguise
Eric Hoffer said that rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. That little sentence has been pounding in my head like my neighbor, who is the…