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  • Love Is Not Affirmation

    Love Is Not Affirmation5

    As I’ve navigated social life in Gen Z, I’ve realized how much contemporary “love” centers on personal affirmation. We “love” others, modern thinking says, by affirming their desires and actions—by submitting ourselves to their perceptions of what is helpful and good. The social expectation today, especially in the younger generations, is to always validate others’

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  • Love in a Time of Coronavirus

    Love in a Time of Coronavirus0

    “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose “By any other name would smell as sweet….” ~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Sorry, Mr. Shakespeare, but I beg to disagree. “Rose” glides from the lips like a musical note, perfumed and sweet in sound as the flower itself. Suppose for argument’s sake that the

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  • Love doesn’t need Marriage

    Love doesn’t need Marriage0

    So my wife and I are coming up on 15 years of marriage. We’ve got the kids, the dog, the house, the people-mover vehicle, and a wealth of experience to prove it. While she comes from a home in which her parents soon will be celebrating 40 years of marriage, I came from a home

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  • Love at First Sight: Is it Real?

    Love at First Sight: Is it Real?0

    For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first sight.   To its detractors, love at first sight must be an illusion – the wrong term for what is simply infatuation, or a way to sugarcoat lust. Buy into it, they say, and

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  • Love and Doubt: the Central Truth of Existence

    Love and Doubt: the Central Truth of Existence0

    I’ve been working for a long time to arrive at the central truth of my existence. In search of answers I’ve read extensively the works of mystics, saints, sages and great teachers from a variety of religious and spiritual traditions. I’ve read New Age books and talked to psychics and healers. I’ve studied philosophy in

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  • Louisa May Alcott’s Insightful Advice for Young Women

    Louisa May Alcott’s Insightful Advice for Young Women0

    Google’s Doodle greeted me this morning with the reminder that November 29th is Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Alcott, the famed author from the late 1800s, was a bit of a mover and shaker in society, particularly in her roles as an abolitionist and feminist. Yet Ms. Alcott’s feminism wasn’t quite the categorization we consider it

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