“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself,” Kahlil Gibran wrote in his poignant verse on parenting.
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Gravity, Grace, and What Binds Us: Poet Jane Hirshfield’s Timeless Hymn to Love and the Proud Scars of the Heart
In the autumn of 1664, when the black plague shrouded the world in a deadly pandemic and universities sent their students home for a quarantine the end of which no one could foresee, a young man besotted with mathematics, motion, and light returned to his illiterate mother’s orchard, where he watc
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The Man Who Freed Me From Cant
I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Memory is tricky, and a work can assert its influences over my thinking long after I’ve forgotten its particular details, or even its title.
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Reading scripts and pushing buttons
Hiring phone salespeople and giving them a script used to make sense. Throw enough human spam at the population and sooner or later, you might make a profit. The person who responded to my web query the other day was doing a great job of working with his script.
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Messonnier, Birx detail political interference in last year’s coronavirus response
The Trump administration repeatedly interfered with efforts by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year to issue warnings about the evolving coronavirus pandemic, six current and former health officials told congressional investigators in recent interviews.
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Fake Hafez: How a supreme Persian poet of love was erased
That so many of the poems attributed to Hafez are fake reveals a Western appropriation of Muslim spirituality. This is the time of the year where every day I get a handful of requests to track down the original, authentic versions of some famed Muslim poet, usually Hafez or Rumi.
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Front Porch Reflections 