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  • Looking Back Makes It Easier To Look up With Hope

    Looking Back Makes It Easier To Look up With Hope0

    At a recent Sunday Mass, the priest introduced an unfamiliar word: anagoge (pronounced AN-uh-goh-gee). It’s used today to mean a spiritual or allegorical interpretation, usually of Scripture, but he used anagoge in its original Greek sense, “a leading upward.” He then encouraged us to look upward more often, even literally, to the heavens rather than

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  • Looking at Randomness but Seeing Conspiracies

    Looking at Randomness but Seeing Conspiracies0

    We see patterns where none exist. It’s what humans do; in fact, it’s what animals do. Mark Twain noticed this, and had a pithy summary. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down

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  • Longing for the Days of Presidential Attack Ads

    Longing for the Days of Presidential Attack Ads0

    Man, do I miss Michael Bloomberg. Don’t get me wrong. The constant bombardment his campaign leveled at Americans over billboards, television, radio, and the internet was incessant and utterly annoying. It was a great relief to see him drop out of the race, if for no other reason than to have this multi-sensory campaign assault

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  • Longing for Simpler Living

    Longing for Simpler Living0

    What do minimalism, slow living, tech resistance, and homesteading – all growing trends in America – have in common? They all spring from a longing for a simpler way of life. Sometimes that longing takes on a nostalgic or idealistic form. Yet it’s a legitimate desire, symptomatic of our sense that something has gone wrong, that our techno-industrial world, for

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  • Long-lost Beatrix Potter Tale Uncovered

    Long-lost Beatrix Potter Tale Uncovered0

    My relationship with Beatrix Potter goes way back. I got to know her in second grade when the school English curriculum took me through her famous stories one by one. Although finding the definitions for the vocabulary words and answering the comprehension questions – in COMPLETE sentences, mind you – were a daunting task, I

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  • Loners Are More Intellectual and Loyal Than Other People

    Loners Are More Intellectual and Loyal Than Other People0

    (Inspired by iHeartIntelligence) Speaking as a loner myself, I can tell you that there is a huge difference between a person who is socially rejected and a person who rejects social interaction.  And even though loners often get a bad wrap (I’m assuming because people are upset that they don’t want to be a part of

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