Monthly Archives: February 2016

Life Hacking a Good Life

Apparently if you ask millennials what they believe makes for a good life, a frighteningly large percentage of them will say one or more of the following three answers: money, fame, high achievement. The association here is that notoriety equates somehow to a sense of happiness or fulfilling your life properly. This doesn't feel right. I hear my own children become animated about the ridiculous earnings of YouTubers. I suspect they too day-dream about wowing audiences, Pop-Idol style, or strutting red carpets dripping in

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Boundless Beauty

Back when I was a high school English teacher there were some stock standard pieces of literature that consistently made it onto the curriculum. Shakespeare always had a spot, Dickens was a regular and not a year seemed to go by without having to teach John Keats’ Ode to a Grecian Urn. When students love the arts - and literature specifically, that’s them converted for life. Their ear is attuned, and their sensibilities respond to the scansion of poems and the magical spells great writers cast. However, a young adult who has no

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