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Wrote this bit a little while back, and noted that the famous East of Eden film by Elia Kazan starring James Dean actually clipped the central commentary of the Steinbeck book. For Steinbeck, the whole doomed story of kinslayer Cain comes d...
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Main Character Syndrome
Seems like almost every news article you opened this week, from dumb rescues in the mountains (a Mount Shasta group who used AI to misplan their route, as well as two folks plummeting to their deaths trying to get the perfect selfie on Aspe...
Wendell and Dolly
As we’ve all seen relentlessly in our feeds this last week, we’ve just lost two really good humans—poet farmer Wendell Berry and gospel country muse Dolly Parton. From the sixties until now, they both shared their voice and their art with h...
We’re So Close to Hell You Can See Sparks
(Sparks, Nevada lies a few miles due east of Sin City Reno, hence the locals’ joke that titles this post)
Ed Note: If the kind of IRL resilience, community and leadership training covered in this essay is up your alley—we’re running our an...
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