We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get up and get on and get over things. But sometimes the ability to survive troubles isn't always the thing that matters.
Read MoreWhen I heard David Byrne's TED Talk, "How architecture helped music evolve," I couldn’t help but recall that wonderful quote from Goethe: "Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music." I agree!
Read MoreI believe human connection is at the core of everything that matters in the world, from global things like politics and climate change to tiny things like crossing the street.
Read MoreYou probably know about Elizabeth Gilbert because her non-fiction book about traveling around the world to find herself after divorce, Eat, Pray, Love, was an international bestseller, and then a movie starring Julia Roberts. I knew that the book existed, like nearly everyone with a pulse, but I hadn't read it, nor did I have plans to. To be honest, I'd arrogantly filed it away in my brain under "self-help-How-Stella-Got-Her-Groove-Back-type-books-I'll-probably-never-read."
Read MoreOver and over during 2016 -- capped by the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency -- we've shown how easy it is, and how seductive, to reduce people to a single identity. We flatten them into a caricature, we prepare to strip them of their humanity, and we ready ourselves to be disburdened of our conscientious self-control.
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