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Quit Often — and the need for skillful change
Our culture’s myths around work, responsibility and purpose leave us fragile. We need to build up the skill of quitting better.
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Breaking Chasms
The key to the parable is the chasm: the one between God and wealth: and how we are all called to break it apart.
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Two Other Drews
Drew isn’t a terribly common name. So how crazy is it that I ran into two other people named Drew in 24 hours?
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Saving Time
Returning to Standard Time brings disruption. How much disruption it brings, however, is debatable. And we do debate. Arguing over that one hour—where it goes, when to take it, how to plan it—is a cultural phenomenon we experience twice a year, every year. Scientists have even studied the effects of shifting in and out of…
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The 5 Pathologies that are killing us
Is the United States the first rich failed state? In a challenging new essay on Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque makes the case that we are. And we aren’t nearly as concerned with this as we should be. Umair Haque begins his essay by naming your skepticism. And it’s warranted. The reader has just read…
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I don’t want your binary world.
I DON’T WANT YOUR BINARY WORLD I don’t want your binary world. You can keep it. It’s no gift, really. A curse actually. Long distance arguments turn into brief skirmishes in a decades-spanning war. My every little expression dissected, deconstructed, injected, transformed into a wild assumption making me look like an ass and you and…
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The Dumpster Fire
THE DUMPSTER FIRE I’m losing track of the horrors The assassination The truck Fireworks in Mexico. So much pain and I’m forgetting it every day there’s more like Professor X my mind is overloaded with voices, everyone’s thoughts and the villains want me so incapacitated I can’t resist. Won’t. Overwhelmed and afraid, the only turn…
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Balanced
BALANCED There is no balance between rich and poor, slave and free. No necessary condition of have and have not. Victims don’t need to forgive their abusers before justice reins in the terror. Our lives are out of balance. If our ecosystem was balanced, it was before we burned fossil fuels. Before we salted our…