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Living with Time as a life partner
The writing life, like a Sabbatical, is ill-defined by the usual measurements, like great and perfect. Better to live along with it.
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Give the kids snow days
The ratcheting effect of ever increasing the expectations of productivity on our kids is destroying our humanity.
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My Favorite Book of 2023
I read a bunch of different books this year, but one book stood out. It rewired within me the very sense of what life actually is.
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Year, Month, Week, or Day
We have all sorts of obligations. But actively working with how we see time is better than living an ill-fitting pattern.
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Forward, Backward, or Now?
How we usually imagine time: linear and consistent: is fun and useful. But it also reveals existential quandaries.
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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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Immediately
Mark’s gospel uses the word “immediately” a lot. But what if it isn’t literal or a figure of speech? What if the evangelist is getting us to see beyond our reality–to where the kin-dom already is? How the immediacy of Jesus reveals the presence of the kin-dom Epiphany 4B | Mark 1:21-28 Time travel. It’s…
