As Smith, Buber, and Gerwig remind me, we cannot be fully actualized people to everyone we meet
We tell the stories as we want to know them, withholding the details that would round them into truth.
Dear twenty-seven-year-old Caroline,
Quit your job.
Like so many great dynasties before it, Disney’s empire is built on a chorus of tiny voices.
Days like these, I can’t follow a podcast, and music sounds too loud, the tempo much faster than I remembered, the lyrics and storytelling much less compelling.
That’s a heavy con for Madison (Pros: Government job benefits, Roommate Night with my best friends, a church that has become home, cheese).
What if we chose to invest like we’ll be here for ten years or more, and that investment became a reality?
Just the smile of someone who is in on the secret.
The first thing you should know about cranes is that they don’t like to be ignored.
One of the things about moving around a lot is that people start to ask you, “Does it feel like home?”
