It’s always in retrospect when we discover the moments in our lives that matter. Life experienced in real time doesn’t easily enable us to contextualize our feelings or the relevance of experience. Only memory and its academic sibling history grant lasting gravitas to events, or sentimentality, or sadness, or joy to events.
Read MoreTHE SURVIVAL INVENTION
How did those who came before manage to endure? We retell and retell and retell, the stories preserving information as much has they preserve motivation.
Read MoreTHERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
But once you know where you come from, challenge yourself to range outward and learn what’s going on elsewhere. Those explorations will inevitable make you more aware of the unique attributes of your own origin, but they will also make you a more powerful creator.
Read MoreTHE SEEDS OF OUR BETTER SELVES
Humanity cannot really claim a higher order of evolution until it overcomes its first-order tendencies to suppress, restrict, and ultimately destroy.
Read MoreMY EVENING WITH CHARLES AZNAVOUR
His special thing—that unusual, sparkling, saturated thing that gives him gravitas and value—is a profound urgency about not giving up on life, on romance, on love.
Read MoreTHANKSGIVING 2017
Wherever the holiday finds you, you’re obviously reading this, which therefore means you’re alive. That’s not something to forget, or waste.
Read MoreVIRUS
Like a virus, an idea doesn’t look like much without the context of the place and time where it interacts with the world.
Read MoreBEING MOVED
Soldier, student, seer: it doesn’t matter. Looking into the void we can't help but marvel, ponder, feel something shared and private at the same time.
Read MoreLEGENDARY OBSCURITY
We’re all awash in tidal waves of information, yet there’s rarely a sense of anything being a surprise anymore. There’s just an endless stream of “have you gotten to it, yet?”, and that’s not even close to knowing about something awesome that others may not have yet found.
Read MoreWINGTIP
You’re always taking stock of your past, the decisions you’ve made that got you to this moment, and you wonder if you’re on a trajectory that’s still climbing or already settled sneakily into a long slow descent. You look back to look forward.
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