“The clearest evidence that justice is the most important of all the virtues comes from what happens when you remove it. It’s remarkably stark: The presence of injustice instantly renders any act of virtue—courage, discipline, wisdom—any skill, any achievement, worthless…or worse.”
Read MoreThe unsaid thing about funerals is that directly after the communal mourning for someone you love, after everyone is gone and the connected grief dispersed, comes a solitude beyond imagining. A great, gaping nothing where a whole person and life and future used to be. The other side of a funeral is abyss.
Read MoreBecause broken hearts strip vocabularies down to their raw bones…
Read MoreWhen Kyra makes all the males disappear, she must choose her sister who hates her or the man who loves her.
Read MoreNo one keeps every book they read, which means the ones we do keep are important. A person’s library is like a fingerprint.
Read More“Grief can change a person to the point where they become someone they don’t know, or even like very much. I don’t want that to happen to you.”
Read MoreThe great promise of gene editing is that it will transform medicine. The peril is that it will widen the healthcare divide between rich and poor.
Read MoreWhen conflict escalates past a certain point, the conflict itself takes charge. The original facts and forces that led to the dispute fade into the background. The us-versus-them dynamic takes over. Actual differences of opinion on health care policy or immigration stop mattering, and the conflict becomes its own reality. High conflict is the invisible hand of our time.
Read MoreAnd that is why the world has Holy Grails - not because the world needs Holy Grails, but because the world needs heroes.
Read MoreThere is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.
Read MoreWho cared that life was lonely, that jobs were thankless drudgery, that the romance of the proud American state was myth, that the rules of life were laid carefully in neat books and laws written by stern Europeans who stalked the town and state like the grim reaper, with their righteous churches spouting that Jews murdered their precious Jesus Christ?
Read MoreWe bring up kids to make their own choices. We don’t teach them to place all their trust in external authority - political, religious, or philosophical.
Read MorePerhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.
Read MoreI would never be adorable and bubbling over with praise for myself and others. Instead, I was still and cold, and I had to hope that was enough.
Read MoreThe American Dream’s narrowly defined paths to happiness and success rely on an acceptance of prescribed roles, and a lot of accumulation and exhibition.
Read MoreBut what do you need dignity for, when the world is ending anyway?
Read MoreAs the plant grows, the stem uncoils, revealing new leaves, tender at first, rough at last. The fruit appears at the end of a cycle, growing from a stem that bends toward the ground under its own weight.
Read More“Nothing is impossible for those with the vision and will to bring it into being.”
Read MoreI don’t think we know what we’re made of until the worst moment possible happens. Then we must decide who we truly are and what is most important to us. I think we’re often surprised by what we become.
Read MoreEndings were often found in beginnings, and she began to type what she knew.
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