Going Far Together
Someone once said: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others. I really love this saying. It has…
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The Lanterns
There’s a little neighborhood not too far from where I live, the sort of place you miss if you blink or if your car radio is turned…
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I Am Changed
I am changed. It’s a very simple statement really, but not at all simplistic. Sometimes when a person becomes too comfortable in what they have and who…
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So, Be a Survivor
What happens when life kicks you so hard that you’re not sure if you can get back up? I remember seeing something years ago; one of those…
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The Pit of Despair (And Why We Need to Stop Digging)
You know that feeling when you’ve tried so many times to fix something that you just… stop trying? When the effort itself feels pointless because nothing ever…
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Remember When?
Remember when neighbors used to borrow cups of sugar? Not just when they were desperately out, but because borrowing and lending was just what people did. It…
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It Made a Difference to That One
I once heard a story about a man walking along the beach after a storm. The sand was littered with starfish, thousands of them, washed up and…
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We Keep Talking About “Community,” But Do We Even Remember What It Means?
What would it take to build and promote real community and cooperation at scale? This is a question that’s been chewing on my mind for a while…
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Are We Really ‘Civilized,’ or Just Domesticated
This morning I was listening to a lecture by Luke Kemp about the fall of civilizations and it started me thinking about the word civilized. It’s a…
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Not Everyone Shines the Same, and That’s the Point
At some point, as social movements progressed in the West, “equality” became the holy word. Every movement, every cause, every speech since the French Revolution seems to…