There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. — George Sand Aw, love. What an amazing, terrible, beautiful, and most despicable thing love is. Since this blog’s inception, I have written on this all-consuming emotion here, here, here, here, here, and here. So, with spring back—it’s pink and cherry blossoms spreading allergies…
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. — Robert Fulghum Parenting is hard—or at least I assume it must be. I mean I’ve never been a parent, but thinking of myself as a child takes little effort to recall moments that must have caused my parents to debate…
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know. — W.H. Auden In the 5th grade, a nameless young girl saved my life. Well, she saved me $0.75, which is kind of like saving one’s life at that age. At a garage sale, I…
People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard At the commencement address for University of Notre Dame’s 2017 graduating class, Vice President Pence had the following to say: Far too many campuses across America have become characterized by speech codes, safe zones, tone policing,…
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. — Rudyard Kipling With the winter, comes one of the most annoying things in life: the stuffy nose. But more than a nasally voice or the inability to sleep comfortably (if at all), losing your sense of smell can have effects on your…
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. — Barbara Kingsolver To be honest, I was going to spend today’s post with a follow-up on naïve realism, but then I thought it was…