When comfort becomes a crutch: “Lessons learned from the pandemic”
I want to start by first saying we get these bodies on loan for a short while; then we must give them back and vacate the premises because life is about constant transition, ebbs and flows, and there is a time and place for comfort in that life; however, we can also diminish our life experience by leaning too deeply into comfort. This is the age-old story of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, who was...
The Baby and the Bath Water: Part 2 (The Power of Story)
The Power of Story
At the end of Part 1, I said that the work was not to choose between the principle and the story, but to reconcile them.
I did not fully understand what that reconciliation would require of me.
It is one thing to recognize that stories help human beings approach truth. It is another to turn toward your own life and ask whether the story you have avoided telling may carry som...
The Baby And The Bath Water: Part 1
This article is deeply personal and is about a journey I have embarked on around story and principle. If you have read previous articles, you may have picked up on a theme.
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The Purpose of Story
Let me preface this by saying when I say the word "story," I mean the larger context of ideas like storytelling, narrative, personal story, lore, folktale, myth, legend, parable, fable, propaganda, an...
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