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Leaders, Find Your Mojo
The flowers are pushing through because that’s what they do. On my walk the other day, I gave a happy start to see that here in the Southeastern United States, spring is on the way. For those in warmer climes, the excitement can be hard to relate to, but after winter’s onslaught, a particularly brutal…
We Find New Fields Within Ourselves During Crisis
One of the initial sparks of curiosity that fired my novel was the idea, from the writing of novelist Jay McInerny, of a special kind of “aliveness” during times of crisis. In his book, The Good Life, he describes the characters as having, in the aftermath of September 11, a sense of being present and…
A Good Dream is Hard to Find
Dreams should be like lovely mountain villages in the clouds, places where our future selves will live in a state of elation. Because we construct them in our imaginations, we fall under the illusion that they are subject to us. But dreams misbehave badly, eventually becoming taskmasters over us. I know this because I was…
