What I see when I get a moment to pause and make a little sense of the world
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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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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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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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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The actor—and now novelist—reflects on how he got here, and the other lives he might have lived instead. To hear more audio stories, download the curio app.
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What happens when everyone first gets immunity to the coronavirus as a very young kid? To hear more audio stories, download the Hark app.
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Things look calm right now. They may even stay that way—but we won’t know for sure for a good long while. By all official counts—at least, the ones still being tallied—the global situation on COVID appears to have essentially flatlined.
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Opponents of COVID vaccines terrorize grieving families on social media. My 6-year-old boy died in January. We lost him after a household accident, one likely brought on by a rare cerebral-swelling condition. Paramedics got his heart beating, but it was too late to save his brain.
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In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: A gun enthusiast in Tampa built a 55-foot backyard pool shaped like a revolver, with a hot tub in the hammer.
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Jenny Odell’s latest book asks an urgent question: What happens when our emergencies become banal? My wrist gets a buzz. The tiny computer strapped around it lights up with a message, rendered in lilac-blue: I am sitting, the watch informs me. I shouldn’t be.
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