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CARRY ON

My first memory is of my father.  It was a little over a month before my third birthday.   He woke me in the middle of the night, with an air of hushed excitement, and carried me across the street to…

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POINT OF PRIDE

Several years ago, I wrote an affirmation to share on a Sunday morning. It’s still one of my favorites: Yes, as a matter of fact, I am God’s gift to the world.And so are we all. I don’t remember what,…

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WAIT A MINUTE

When I open up my phone, sometimes I’ll find myself on a screen of “widgets” — little quick-look interactive previews of news headlines, my step-count, to-do lists, whatever’s up-next on my podcasts… stuff like that.  I don’t think I ever…

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize that I should have been more specific.” - Lily Tomlin One way of envisioning the journey of Life is as a process of narrowing things down from an overwhelming infinitude…

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MERCY ME

The dynamic tension between independence and mutual responsibility has been part of the human psyche for… I don’t know, maybe forever. It was fundamental to our evolutionary development as a species — homo sapiens wouldn’t have made it very far…

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BARREL OF MONKEYS

When I was about fifteen years old, I decided that religion was a soul-sucking dead-end. This decision was a big shift and it came out of nowhere, as far as I recall. I’d been a happy churchgoer my entire life,…

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JUMP THE SHARK

I don’t know if you’re familiar with the idea of “jumping the shark.” It refers to the 5th season of the TV show Happy Days. In a 1977 episode, the ever-cool character of the Fonz, answering a challenge to his…

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