The significance of an ordinary life
An ordinary life does not become insignificant because it happens beyond the attention of an audience.
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Notes on being human.
Essays on friendship, truth, mortality, freedom, and the quiet significance of ordinary life.
A table without an agenda
Hospitality begins when a person is welcomed without first being assigned a purpose.
Read the essay →The freedom to be corrected
Being wrong is uncomfortable. Being unable to admit it is a much greater confinement.
Read the essay →Strength without cruelty
The test of strength is not always what it can overcome. Sometimes it is what it refuses to destroy.
Read the essay →Time to live
Rest gives us a chance to discover which demands deserve the authority we have given them.
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We welcome thoughtful responses and ideas for future essays. These opening pieces are editorial reflections, not historical research claims or accounts of actual events.
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