Joshua Balarie

At best, we end up living a life defined by not what we're choosing, but by what we're trying to avoid.

I felt like I became fully conscious for the first time, and that included a realization about how, like stress, most limitations are self-imposed.

Why stop at competency? Why not be brilliant? Why stop at satisfaction? Why not be ecstatic? Why stop at gratitude? Why not be pleased? Just wear the dress and buy the shoes and burn the candle, do it... See more

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

And tariffs are regressive sales taxes that fall much more heavily on lower-income Americans than on the affluent, for three reasons. First, low-income households spend a higher fraction of their income. Second, compared with the affluent, poor and working-class families spend more on goods, which are facing tariffs, as opposed to services, which... See more