Lurking somewhere in the back of our adult brains is every mother’s admonition If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you? Don’t blindly follow your friends. Sometimes this warning is made explicit. When I went to university in my 40s, my seventy-five-year-old Dad worried that I would cease to think for myself. And so he gave…
Struggle.
For many, getting through the day is like being a mole on asphalt.
Don’t be deterred…
... from searching a well-trodden path for novel things. Hard packed ground can conceal many treasures. -- Pam L, 2018
Resistance is…
Resistance is not raising up an army and trading fire, by that time too many have needlessly suffered -- as will many more. Resistance is inviting someone you've been taught (and are expected) to hate to your table and treating her as a friend. The people you need to resist, to this end, are your…
