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Recently, MEA guest faculty member Karen Skerrett sent some excerpts from a fascinating white paper called “The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World” that explores how character and wisdom are kissin’ cousins. This is one of the questions this heady paper poses: “Is wisdom one of many virtues linked to creativity, open-mindedness, perspective, and ...
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If you’re like me, you were probably inspired as well. Maybe you’re ready to enter a violin-making contest? Or maybe there’s cake-baking in your future or poetry awakening inside you?
August 26, 2020
There is a “Sisterhood of nature and the soul.” Our body is made out of clay…it has the memory of the earth in it and has the rhythm of the
August 25, 2020
In other words, higher ed gets disrupted. And, then, COVID just raised the stakes on that disruption. Seemed like an appropriate time to write this post.In one of my first
August 24, 2020
Started with a COVID test in a parking lot on Monday morning. Then, an annual physical and series of blood tests with my personal doc who booked me an urgent
August 23, 2020
But, there’s no doubt 2020 is an extreme year. What adverb can define this era? “Deliciously?” Far from it. “Deliriously?” Not bad, but not aspirational enough. “Debauchedly?” Yep, on certain
August 22, 2020
She wrote this book as an intellectual meditation on what it means to turn 60. Since I’m two months from that celebration, I picked up this book in the section
August 21, 2020
If wisdom is about distilling what’s essential, Arthur has given us the gift of understanding the premise of his upcoming book before it’s on bookshelves. Here are some of my
August 20, 2020
Google replaced Grandpa and Grandma long ago. A kid has a question today, and they go online. Yes, we all know elders were once revered. Our kids and grandkids sat
August 19, 2020
I was recently talking to an eighteen-year-old. She told me about how her high school softball season got canceled, which meant she didn’t get any college athletic scholarship offers. Her
August 18, 2020
Here’s one “reality” I experienced the past half-year in Baja: how am I tending to my soul? This is not a question we ask ourselves daily. And, it’s rarely a
August 17, 2020
Now, I’m going to offer a few words to Christine, especially as I venture back to the United States today, curious and fearful of what I may find there after
August 16, 2020
August 15, 2020
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