What I see when I get a moment to pause and make a little sense of the world
In 1953, the British pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott began writing about the idea of “good-enough” parenting—a term he coined, and one he’s still famous for today. According to Winnicott, after infancy, babies do not need tirelessly responsive or self-sacrificing parents.
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“A life of patient suffering… is a better poem in itself than we can any of us write,” the young poet Anne Reeve Aldrich wrote to Emily Dickinson shortly before her untimely death.
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“Matter delights in music, and became Bach,” Ronald Johnson wrote in his stunning 1980 prose poem about music and the mind. This may be why music so moves and rearranges and harmonizes us, why in it we become most fully ourselves — “atoms with consciousness,” axons with feeling.
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We move among surfaces. If we are lucky enough, if we are courageous enough, every once in a while we dive into the depths with another. It is not easy, because even through our best self-awareness, we remain largely unfathomable to ourselves.
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The National Conservatism “Statement of Principles,” recently released by the Edmund Burke Foundation, gets a lot right.
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Supporters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake pray at an election-night gathering on August 2, 2022. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.) Three things are true at once. First, the United States is the most Christian advanced democracy in the world.
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What if “your body is a temple” is not a shaming shamer, yelling at you to make your body worthy by doing xyz? What if “your body is a temple” is a gift of grace?
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America’s secular canon is without exception comprised of the immortal words of mortals rising in defence of freedom, liberty and equality. Their greatness combined an incandescent moral clarity at great moments of testing.
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