Co-winner of the 2nd Annual Alexander Phillips Arete Award Surging against the impacted and ossified rules of the Old Order of “might makes right,” a massive wave of insightful thought is on the rise — worldwide....
The Problem with Democrats (and politicians in general)...
or: Zen, Anthony Bourdain, and Ant-Commandos. In which our hero discovers he is never alone....
And our attention can change the world. Climate change, refugee crisis, nuclear proliferation — what if we could help change all this with one simple shift in our thinking?...
Our salvation is in the hands of our storytellers....
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ― Frederick Douglass Learning from past revolutions in information literacy, can we develop a model that suits the 21st century?...
“Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.” ― Terry Pratchett This is about understanding that the individual is stronger if the whole is also stronger....
Thoughts on Marie Kondo, then, and learning to live the life you have. Meditating is actually about taking care of the life you live in now. This is what Zen master Dogen said: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?...
A concise guide to communicating compassionately both online and off. Our greatest impact in the world is made through our relationships with other people — how we communicate, how we comport ourselves when we communicate, changes the world around us....
How a book on graphic novel writing changed my perspective of narrative craft....
Bernie Sanders is considering a new bid for President of the United States of America and we should all be paying very close attention. Bernie Sanders is considering a new bid for President of the United States of America and we should all be paying very close attention....
Anyone reading this can be doing amazing things. If we’re not careful, in our quest to imitate the great entrepreneurial minds of our century, we’ll find ourselves running over a cliff....
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single…...
For those of us with chronic conditions, life can often feel like a series of compromises and fallbacks. I’m fortunate in many ways. I also have a chronic illness and a host of secondary, comorbid chronic conditions....