Real heroism is not found in the headlines but is only the result of minutes, hours, weeks, and years of exercising a careful and judicious sincerity, often with no one there to see or applaud. This really important kind of freedom involves discipline, doing what is difficult, being obedient to that still, small voice inside your head that knows... See more

There is so much inside that we can never show another. Because we know this, because we know what people see is never us, but only a part, a tiny and inadequate part, we expend so much energy trying to manage the part that they do see. That will probably never change. We will probably spend our lives being squeezed through a tiny keyhole, and... See more

Online community” is an oxymoron. Smooth and shiny frictionless Zoom rooms where everyone agrees with everything you say is not only inhuman, it’s boring. It is only the diversity that exists in community, the people who are not like us, that makes it real and true and human.

People argue they use social media to keep in touch with family and friends. Luckily, there is something called email and the telephone. It is only in two-way mediums, where we must contend with the reality of another person, that real relationship forms and grows. Passive one-way consumption of someone’s life only creates the illusion of... See more