Spirituality

Breaking the Cycle
Sometimes I am so comfortable in my routine that I get physical anxiety when I’m about to do anything out…
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The Dead Birds
I have never stumbled on a dead body even though there are more than seven billion people on the planet.…
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The Perfect Amount of Death
Austin Kleon starts every day by reading obituaries. Not to be morbid. Not to obsess about death. Not to channel…
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The One Where Everything’s Different
At 4:37 a.m. Central Time, I turned 35. I’m completely unfazed. I’m less interested and less affected by the occasion…
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The Dream Weaver
As the clock ticked down on my marriage, I was a total wreck of a human being. I faked it…
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How to Get Lucky
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur, Dec. 7, 1854 The odds of finding a four-leaf clover are about…
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The Saddest Place in the World
If the pursuit of happiness is our most-important Earthly mission, my neighbors and I are doing it wrong. According to…
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The Three Wishes
Everyone has considered it. Finding that genie lamp. Three wishes. “Only” three. Because we’re greedy and we want more. We…
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The Bookend Dreams
I woke suddenly and sat up. Terror reverberating throughout every piece of me. Breathe. I looked over. My five-year-old son…
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A Glimpse
There’s a U.S. military arsenal not far from where I live—adjacent to the small township in which my ex-wife grew…
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