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A deeper joy

A deeper joy

There’s a striking perspective near the end of the novel Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos. The protagonist Cornelia shares, “I’d figured out that a real life didn’t mean attaining my heart’s desire, but knowing it; not the...
A deeper joy

“The most encouraging man”

My life feels really meaningful when I’m encouraging others or being kind to people in some specific manner. And I have my Dad to thank for a lot of that. “Right at this moment, I’m not sure where to turn next,” I said near the end of the eulogy I delivered at...
Thick glasses, thicker hearts

Thick glasses, thicker hearts

My kindergarten school photograph from Butternut Elementary in North Olmstead, Ohio, was the only one from my childhood in which I was not wearing my glasses. I sported a white turtleneck sweater and sat at my desk with my hands folded before me, my straight dark hair...
Thick glasses, thicker hearts

Preventing Future Pandemics

Most of us are still so consumed with trying to deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic–especially those with various forms of Long COVID–that we’re not thinking through how to prevent future, deadlier ones. Such prevention rests up on a...