Time and Chance

No matter what your profession is, your words feed people’s souls. All of us have the opportunity to spoon spiritual nutrition into people’s lives.

We will always see the glitter of tinfoil before discovering that it’s not gold.

Patriotic pride rejoices in your piece of a shared vision of the collective good. But what happens when your vision is not shared so…

True wisdom is not hidden in some coded cipher on the back pages of a musty book. She’s clear, visible, and prominent. She wants…

The faster you descend from your mountaintop of success into feelings of failure and self-loathing, the better. That means you’ll get to your next…

The power comes in her offhanded delivery. At their initial encounter, the subtext is uneasy, electric with forbidenness. But then she casually disarms the…

There are plenty of mistakes you can quietly go about fixing yourself. But when your error involves a promise or expectation given to someone…

Try to remember—what used to happen when you got bored? What have we lost, exactly? The underlying catastrophe is the loss of humility.

Adultery is more like trying to get your summer tan in a single sunscreenless day at the beach.

Questions of value lead us to constantly look for something bigger, better and more lasting.