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The Puzzle of Living: Victor Frankl on Meaning, John Lennon’s Beautiful Boy, and Life That Grows Through The Cracks

Most babies come into the world a loud, wailing thing. And while we have no memory of the event, an old quote attributed to Mark Twain claims that it is one of the two most important days of our lives, the second being the day we discover why we came into the world a loud, …

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“Beware of Idiots” and Six Other Things a 20-Year-Old Should Hear At Least Once a Year

One evening, as I was preparing to fall asleep, my brain decided it was the perfect time to go full gear with crazed thoughts of the what was and what will be. And in the middle of all that—the ‘what is’ was up to the neck with self-inflicted worry. As you may know, dear reader, things like this never …

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