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November 20, 2020

Of Flocks and Wings

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 Continue reading

Catch-All

children, fear, growing up, love, parent, parenting, peer pressure, think for yourself, worry

September 22, 2020

Hume on the balanced life

I’m feeling crushed by the woes of the world, as if it’s incumbent on me to fix its problems and set everyone straight. I should blush at my arrogance. Blushing would at least lend me a rosy semblance of health. Instead, my face is pale and drawn from a day of fretting. And besides, I’m Continue reading

Arts and Leisure

Amalfi, anxiety, balance, foto, Hume, Italy, Philosophy, photo, quote, rational, rest, social, worry

September 18, 2020

Thoughtlets .iii.

I worry a little that, in this politically charged environment particularly, when someone urges you to ‘be your authentic self’ she means ‘come out here where I can get you’. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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