Reflections Your Detours Were the Training
Most of us think our path took too long and had too many wrong turns. Look again. The detours made you someone nobody else could be.
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Reflections "Sorry If You Were Offended" Is Not an Apology
The non-apology has the shape of an apology and none of the weight. Most of us have given one this year.
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Reflections Living Your Truth Is Not the Same Thing as Living Truthfully
"My truth" can never be wrong. Neither can "I'm just telling it like it is." That's exactly the problem with both.
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Reflections Good Vibes Only Is Not the Same Thing as Living Bodhi
Bodhi means to awaken — to see things exactly as they are. "Good vibes only" asks you to do the opposite and calls it the same thing.
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Reflections Michael Palin Still Hasn't Run Out of Doors to Look Through
He co-wrote a dead-parrot sketch in his twenties and has spent the four decades since circling the entire planet on camera, one curious question at a time, well into his eighties.
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Reflections Twenty-Seven Years, and He Came Out Looking for a Way to Share the Country
Nelson Mandela went into prison at forty-four and came out at seventy-one. Every ordinary human account says the man who walks out of that is owed a reckoning. He went looking for something else.
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Reflections Thoreau Figured Out the Noise Problem Before There Was Noise
In 1845 there was no feed to check and no phone to put down. He unplugged from ordinary 19th-century life anyway, and said exactly why.
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Reflections Nobody Scheduled Bill Murray
No publicist, no plan — just a stranger who shows up at your party and starts washing the dishes. The stories may not all be verified. That might be the point.
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Reflections Theodore Roosevelt's Letters Were Mostly Nonsense, and That Was the Point
The most powerful man in the world wrote his kids letters full of bad doodles, sillier puns, and updates on a one-legged rooster. He had a country to run. He made time for nonsense anyway.
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Reflections The Prayer I Prayed for My Son
I never prayed for my son to turn out like me. I prayed for the wisdom to get out of his way at the right moments — and the humor to survive the ones I didn't.
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Reflections Groucho Marx Wrote His Daughter Letters for Thirty Years, and They Were All Jokes
When his teenage daughter mentioned a boy she met in an elevator, Groucho didn't ask if he was trustworthy. He asked which direction the elevator was going — because going up was clearly a case of love at first sight.
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Reflections Dad Jokes Are a Love Language, Not a Crime
Every groan a dad joke earns is the point, not the failure. Researchers call it 'benign violation.' Kids call it embarrassing. It's actually one of the most reliable bonding rituals a father has.
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