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  • America at 250. Still Something Worth Dying For?

    America at 250. Still Something Worth Dying For?
    2026/07/04
    Earlier this week, market strategist and geo-political commentator, John Singer, released an essay entitled Losing the Plot. He opens the piece with a story about a young woman posing in sultry fashion for a photo while sitting on the train tracks that run directly into Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where over a million people […]
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    12 分
  • Time, Flowing Like a River

    Time, Flowing Like a River
    2026/07/05
    Time, flowing like a riverTime, beckoning meWho knows whenWe shall meet again, if everBut time keeps flowingLike a river to the sea From Time by Alan parson Jumping into the warm pool yesterday, I felt like I had stepped into a stream which had stopped. This was the grip of a moment…a moment I knew […]
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    3 分
  • Love Foolishly

    Love Foolishly
    2026/07/12
    In 1989, Stephen R. Covey published his classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The book was a staple of management and personal effectiveness thinking for those coming of age in their careers in the 1990s, and has remained an influence for generations of leaders, with Covey’s timelessly catchy metaphors and pithy expressions of […]
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    6 分
  • We’re All the Difficult Kind. Love Us Anyway.

    We’re All the Difficult Kind. Love Us Anyway.
    2026/06/28
    Can you remember a time when you walked on this earth unencumbered with self-consciousness? A moment when you dressed, spoke, played, danced, laughed, or raged without concern for appearance, judgment, or consequence? For most reading this, the answer is “no, I cannot,” because you were probably 3 or 4 years old. The three-year-old is absolutely […]
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    10 分
  • Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Turn and Face the Strange

    Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Turn and Face the Strange
    2026/06/21
    During a long drive about two weeks ago, the song Changes, by David Bowie, came on the radio. Bowie and his music have been on my mind ever-since. It’s kind of odd, I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a fan. Released in 1972, neither the song nor Bowie were a household music staple in my youth. […]
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    6 分
  • The Good Life. For That I Came.

    The Good Life. For That I Came.
    2026/06/14
    As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;As tumbled over rim in roundy wellsStones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’sBow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,Crying Whát […]
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    7 分
  • What Does It Mean to Be Human?

    What Does It Mean to Be Human?
    2026/06/07
    In the 2021 movie, Dune: Part I, the young Paul Atreides submits to the Gom Jabbar, a test administered by the leader of an order of semi-mystical priestesses. In the test, he must put his hand inside a small black box while the priestess holds a poison-laced needle near his neck; the test is to […]
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    5 分
  • Beautiful, Amazing, Magnificent Humanity

    Beautiful, Amazing, Magnificent Humanity
    2026/05/31
    During the preceding week, a flurry of thank you cards found their way to our house. Apparently, some of our grandchildren found them to be a great canvas for artwork, practicing writing their letters and words, testing new metallic markers, and for actually writing “thank you” note. Some of these envelopes were hand delivered in […]
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    5 分