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The reality within fantasy (baseball)
What fantasy baseball can tell us about reality, behavior, and how to succeed at life—and the predictability of our common failure.
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The perfect length of beard
The pursuit of the perfect beard is a false expectation. How we deal with self-sabotage and perfectionism, however, is the real work.
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Fireworks are never personal
Fireworks are the definition of public displays. Explosions of sound and light, fire and power. A violent eruption to the mundane.
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Home—everything always changes
We need to not only accept change, but the feeling that sometimes rejects it—there is something at war in us that time always exacerbates.
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I ordered the usual
On a trip to the campus bookstore on the last day of residency, I rush to get clothes and coffee before our final workshop starts.
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A New Name
If you had a different name then the one you were given, what would it be? What would mine be? Really, what goes into a name?
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Healed —and the willingness to be changed
When we long to be healed, praying for God to heal us of what ails us, do we dare acknowledge that we are supposed to change?
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To lighten the rain
The joy of the elements is to be felt and experienced—with the courage to be open, to ourselves and others as we are or could be.