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Ari just turned four, and this still applies every bit as much as it did the day I wrote it. It is every truth that I've come to understand in my 40 years, so it's pretty short, but someday, I hope she will appreciate it. Maybe you will too.
"Without thinking, I'm a mark for their marketing plans, I'm Americancer..." - Shawn Harris, The Matches To narcissists who crave only power, your beliefs are a vulnerability that they can take advantage of to obtain their goals. Your emotions surrounding your most rigid stances, the things you feel most strongly about, are the those with [...]
At this point, I honestly don’t fault anyone for feeling any way about anything. We all react differently to society’s obvious ills. We've all been inundated with rhetoric hypnosis. However, I do find it difficult to see people with drastic mindsets, (people who should be the most accepting by virtue of feeling so entitled to [...]
My friend Jake once decided, for a reasonably decent period of time, to do only what TV and GAP commercials told him to do. He dressed in only wool sweaters and khakis. He wore dress-casual leather boots. He put gel in the front of his hair and spritzed himself with a very sensible amount of [...]
Freedom is fragile. It can be destroyed with simple words. This is why those who charge themselves with protecting it choose their words carefully. It is also why those who vie to replace freedom with their own self-serving will seem to lack nuance, but it is a certainty that their words are chosen just as [...]
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