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  • THE PROCESS MATTERS

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    “And yet it was true: the responsibility was huge, but there is nothing about being a father that I don’t love. I even found the toddler tantrums weirdly charming. You think you’re being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever… Read More ›

  • APPRECIATE YOU

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    “That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.”… Read More ›

  • STILL ASKING THE WRONG QUESTIONS

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    “Habit rules the unreflecting herd.” ― William Wordsworth “The moment we pulled up in front of her apartment she had the door open. She turned to me with the long, elegant, mournful face of her Puritan ancestors and held out… Read More ›

  • PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS

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    “The best things in life make you sweaty.” ― Edgar Allan Poe “Politics, as he occasionally said, required three unchanging talents and no virtues. More politicians, he claimed, had been destroyed by virtue than by any other cause; and the… Read More ›

  • THE BIG FIVE ZERO ZERO

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    “There’s that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they’re doing it with such panache and conviction…no, it’s because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.” ―… Read More ›

  • CAN I GET MY OWN CLUB HOUSE?

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    “While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals “There is more than one way to burn a… Read More ›

  • Exceptional Grace is

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    “Investigations, meditations, careers, relationships were much the same, he mused. They failed because no one thought to ask the right question.” ― Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra “Anything that just costs money is cheap.” ― John Steinbeck   There are… Read More ›

  • BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A TEACHER?

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    “It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.” – Jonathan Swift “Had a doctor tell me I ought to quit this stuff [bourbon] because it was affecting… Read More ›

  • FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM

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    “I felt that if a man’s proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living… Read More ›

  • TIME TO EMBARK ON A SEARCH

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    “Well that’s very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead, they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.” ― Sam Cook “Never confuse movement with action.” ―… Read More ›