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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner

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Close but No Cigar

If you were to go to Meteora, Greece, ascend the spire atop of which is the Great Meteora Monastery, and then followed the monks into their katholikon to attend evening vespers, you would walk by a remarkable fresco surrounding the door. It depicts pagan philosophers Solon, Sybil, Socrates, Plutarch, Homer, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle (among…

We All Need Restraint

I enjoy conversations (not as much the sometime arguments) with my sons. As they grow in understanding and engage in the wider world outside our home, they show me the world in new ways and refresh my understanding of it. Things I’ve held as true without question they question, and I have to think about…

It Ain’t Superstitious If It’s True

I can’t remember ever being particularly superstitious. I have never feared walking under a ladder, or dreaded bad luck if I broke a mirror, and never thought twice about going out on a Friday just because it was the 13th. None of these or many similar things ever really made sense to me. How could…

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