Living Abroad – As we brace ourselves to move abroad for the third time in a few years, I look back and I know that squeezing our lives into a suitcase…
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education
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“We are all Greeks,” the saying goes. It means that the Western mind was stamped in ancient Athens, and we cannot escape our heritage. Only by understanding its present movement…
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“Look beneath the façade of seamless well-adjustment, and what you often find are toxic levels of fear, anxiety, and depression, of emptiness and aimlessness and isolation.”
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In the first century, the Greek astronomer Ptolemy, working in the great library in Alexandria, produced his earth-centered system of the universe. The Ptolemaic world-view held sway until the 16th…
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A flock of small birds lands in the shallows, and a few begin furiously beating their wings in the water. More join in, and suddenly there are a dozen birds…
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Great masses of gray and white cumulus ascend thousands of feet over the partially shadowed lines of the foothills at the entrance to the canyon. As often happens after a…
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“Tread down my need, and faith mounts up; keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!” – Shakespeare, King John
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An educational center in southern California sent its annual appeal for donations. The director’s theme is: “There is space.” But it ought to be put as a question: Is there…