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HOW OPINIONS FORM WITHOUT EFFORT
“Opinions” arrive quickly, like weather moving across the mind. They “form without effort,” often without reflection, and rarely with the weight of understanding behind them. An opinion can spring from the emotion or echo of someone else’s certainty. That is “why...
EXCEPTIONAL THINKING
The world’s most capable minds, from the quiet warriors of American Special Forces to the tragic heroes of...
COMPRESSION and DEPRESSION
Sometimes what we call “depression” might really be something else. Instead, many of us walk around emotionally...
INTUITION and IMAGINATION
One thing that life continues to teach me – sometimes gently, sometimes like it is trying to get my attention with a...
LIVE HAPPY
When I think about what truly supports a grounded and meaningful life, I often return to a few simple Buddhist...
UNDERSTANDING HEAVEN
When people ask me about heaven, often before we have settled into the conversation, I tell them that my...
SILENT HEALERS
There are moments in a human life when the boundaries between the physical and the unseen thins, and something...
LIFE STRUGGLES
When I think of the people closest to me – the ones I care the most about – I find myself wanting to gather them all...
LEARNING the HARD WAY
There are times when we lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking about how we failed to learn from parts of...
SKEPTICISM and HOPE
“Skepticism” has followed me throughout most of my writing career. It has not been an enemy, but a shadow that insists...
REMEMBERING the MIDWESTERN COLLEGE EXPERIMENT
Sixty years is a long time to stay silent about something that shaped all of us so deeply. Most of us look back, never...











