“A friend,” wrote the poet and philosopher John O’Donohue in his beautiful meditation on the Ancient Celtic notion of anam cara, “awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.
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There Is No Road Map for the Longest Phase of Parenthood
Benjamin Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, which was published in 1946 and sold nearly 50 million copies in the author’s lifetime, sparked the formation of the currently enormous industry advising parents of little ones.
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The Unbearable Smugness of Walking
LifeSpan, a maker of fitness equipment, claims that a treadmill desk will boost my creativity. The company’s website, where I can purchase its basic model for $1,099, features an inspirational quote from Nietzsche: “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
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The Animated Universe in Verse: Complete Series
The Universe in Verse was born in 2017 as part celebration of the wonder of life and the splendor of reality, and part protest against the assault on science and nature — that is, on life and reality — in the era of “alternative facts” and vanishing environmental protections.
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The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life
In early September 1947, a year after she rewilded the landscape of literature with Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910–November 13, 1952) watched the love of her life fade to black.
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Going On to Perfection
Over the course of many centuries now, Wesleyans have talked about sanctification. I discovered Wesley because of this ongoing conversation. Growing up in the Church of the Nazarene, I heard about “holiness” all the time.
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On Labor Day, Democrats and unions should recall their shared history
Historically, the party and the movement have worked together to mutual benefit.
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‘Picasso nearly fell over backwards when he saw her’ – Lee Miller’s son on their intense relationship
There’s a picture of the US photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller with Pablo Picasso, taken by her after the liberation of Paris in 1944. They are gazing into one another’s eyes with such intimacy that you feel you’re intruding on something deeply personal.
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Why do we celebrate Labor Day? So Grover Cleveland could own the left.
Labor Day and May Day both started in the United States. So how did one spread elsewhere while the other become a federal holiday here? Grover Cleveland.
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A neighborhood’s cryptocurrency mine: ‘Like a jet that never leaves’
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Front Porch Reflections 
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