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One thing adults conceal about sex they also conceal about drugs: that it can cause great pleasure. That's what makes sex and drugs so dangerous. The desire for them can cloud one's judgement—which is especially frightening when the judgement being clouded is the already wretched judgement of a teenage kid.

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Lies We Tell Kids

Parenting and family stuff

First, we climb the school ladder.

Then we climb the corporate ladder.

And then we climb the status ladder.

We go from cradle to cubicle to casket, forever competing in games we never cared for, nor designed for us to win.

MAT DO • Tweet

Society

If you look at the trees and the mountains through windows that are wet from the rain of a storm, everything looks blurred and misshapen. Recognize your filters. Everything becomes beautiful when you change.

life nudges

life nudges

The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us. Borrowing a term from the environmentalist Bill McKibben, Michelle Bastian, a senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and editor of the academic journal Time & Society, has argued that clocks have made us “fatally

Joe Zadeh • The Tyranny Of Time

Humans & Nature

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

(Henry Ward Beecher)

life nudges

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

life nudges

Spirituality