Friendship

10+ hour ago   (845+ words) What are the two most important moments in a human life? Two absolutely determinative events that we need to reckon with in order to understand our place in the universe? Indeed, there are none more necessary, nor more humbling, if…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (154+ words) — the price of believing you were different. The sheer audacity of thinking you’d be the exception when their entire history was telling you otherwise. You know how they treated the people before you. You hear the stories, recognize the patterns,…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (623+ words) Because Rosh Chodesh falls on Sunday, this week we set aside the regular haftarah for Parashat Bereishit and read Machar Chodesh (I Samuel 20:18-42), the extraordinary story of David and Jonathan. At first glance, it is a story about friendship. But…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1319+ words) There is no betrayal. No huge argument. No final conversation where you both know it’s over. The calls just become shorter. The messages become less frequent. And then, somehow, the person who used to be part of your everyday life…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (349+ words) Reading The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak had a big impact on me. When I say big, I mean life changing. I cannot even say that I have been inspired by the book. The book awakened something inside…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (974+ words) “Praise God it’s Monday.” Jody Hirschy, Hodson dean of the Cornwall school of business & leadership, begins morning classes with exuberance usually associated with Fridays, Ashlyn Hanson, a senior finance major, said. Hirschy said she has always been a glass-half-full kind of…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (249+ words) How to Have Purpose, Peace, and Heaven There are three questions I ask on my website, which you can find linked to my blog. Are you looking for purpose and meaning in your life? Are you looking for hope and…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (908+ words) I read a few lines in a book today. At first, they looked almost ordinary: Yes, I like you. I want you to know that I like you. I know I love you. But I also know where to stop....

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1915+ words) Some love stories end because love runs out. And perhaps that is what made it so difficult to understand for years afterward. There was no betrayal to make leaving easier. No terrible secret waiting to be discovered. No moment in…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1009+ words) Part Two: The Part We Have to Look at in Ourselves In Part One, we asked some difficult questions. What do I want? Where am I compromising? Where am I making myself smaller? Where do I need a boundary? But…...