Sublime

Maturity comes when we tend to our inner children and don’t inflict them on our partners to care for.

Just as trees grow flowers and fruits, humanity creates works of art.

There’s a spiritual principle at work here: to move beyond some part of you, you must first get to know it and ultimately befriend it.

This, however, seems wrong to me. I look at canonized rock bands the same way I look at canonized U.S. presidents. Even if America lasts ten thousand years, the list of our greatest presidents will never change; it will always include Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson.2 They created the specific criteria for how we classify “greatness” in a pres

U2’s “MLK” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”

What it does mean to be an American is all caught up in what did it mean to be one. Only some combination of those answers could lead you to what it might mean to be an American.

The first step in recovery, coming into right relationship with our privilege, is to see it. To feel its near ubiquitous protection.