The Beatles’ album Rubber Soul guides us through the peaks and trials of a relationship with love – not with a person but with love itself. What is love? How do you define it? How do you know when you feel it? Why do we convince ourselves love is there, or could be, or was? … Continue reading Bouncing By
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In Memory
Today’s Daily is an homage to a great man who lived well and died fiercely. Jeffery Horr Johnston was born on October 5, 1951 in New Jersey. He would have turned 70 years old today, October 5, 2021. The following words were written and read at the celebration of life for Jeffery Horr Johnston on … Continue reading In Memory
Successfully Fearful
A family friend asked me what I fear more, failure or success. With a light eye roll I said “of course failure” while my undergraduate-sociology-majored mind silently quipped “success is an illusion.” But then he explained himself: are you afraid of failing or of succeeding and realizing that what you deemed success is not what … Continue reading Successfully Fearful
Species of Value 