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Semi-Retirees Know the Key to Work-Life Balance

More and more older adults are working—in large part because they want to. The same day that Gayle and Mark Arrowood retired from their jobs at a Department of Energy lab, they drove to Sun Valley, Idaho, to start their next chapter: ski-resort bartending. Mark had a shift that very night.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings Leave a comment June 3, 2023 1 Minute

The Aspects of Manifestation We Shouldn’t Discount

Identifying our desires can point us to our deeper values. The first time I heard of “manifestation” was in 2019, as I coasted up California’s Highway 5, listening to a podcast with Lacy Phillips, an actor turned manifestation coach.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings Leave a comment May 30, 2023 1 Minute

Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic

It’s been two decades, but I still feel jittery when I think of an old boss of mine. One day she nominated me for an award for service to the organization. Then she threatened to fire me for raising a concern about a colleague being mistreated.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings Leave a comment May 30, 2023 1 Minute

‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’

I can say definitively now that I faltered in pursuit of my New Year’s resolution. My self-improvement project for the year was to read a fresh poem every morning, before glimpsing the accumulation of unresponded email and lifting the lid off Twitter.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings Leave a comment May 30, 2023 1 Minute

Love and Fear: A Stunning 17th-Century Poem About How to Live with the Transcendent Terror of Love

Love is both the tenderest mirror and the cruelest. How much and how well we show up for love reflects what we believe ourselves worthy of. What we desire reflects what we believe we deserve. What we long for reflects both our limitations and our restless yearning to transcend them.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings May 24, 2023 1 Minute

What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization

The measure of growth is not how much we have changed, but how harmoniously we have integrated our changes with all the selves we have been — those vessels of personhood stacked within the current self like Russian nesting dolls, not to be outgrown but to be tenderly incorporated.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings May 24, 2023 1 Minute

May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone

Living alone can be deeply rewarding and deeply challenging. It is not for everyone. It is not for those who romanticize its offerings of freedom and focus, but excise its menacing visitations of loneliness and alienation. It is not for those who find silence shattering.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings May 24, 2023 1 Minute

Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug?

People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting. All her life, Victoria Rutledge thought of herself as someone with an addictive personality. Her first addiction was alcohol.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings May 22, 2023 1 Minute

My Friend, Tim Keller

The Christian leader was an intellectual, but he possessed a pastor’s heart. I first heard about Timothy J. Keller in the early 1990s. My future wife, Cindy, began attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City shortly after it was founded by Tim and his wife, Kathy, in 1989.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings May 22, 2023 1 Minute

Inside the Garden of Evil

Harlan Crow wants to stop talking about Clarence Thomas. When you collect statues of Lenin, Harlan Crow told me, “you get to be a bit of a snob.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings May 22, 2023 1 Minute

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