# The habitual tendency when things get tough is that we protect ourselves, we get hard, we get rigid. But…that’s the time to soften and see how we might play or dance with the situation.” This was posted 17 hours ago. It has 0 notes.

# The unsettling normalcy of societal collapse This was posted 17 hours ago. It has 0 notes.

# Policy is not the choice that is on the ballot this year. This was posted 5 days ago. It has 0 notes.

# Reality tv glorifies fighting as the optimal state of human life. This was posted 5 days ago. It has 0 notes.

# He learned that he just had to keep being relevant, keep being talked about… even if it meant being notorious. This was posted 5 days ago. It has 0 notes.

# The only thing in the middle of the road is the yellow line and roadkill. This was posted 5 days ago. It has 0 notes.

# Another often-asked question when I speak in public: “Do you have some good advice you might share with us?” ￼

Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. “In every good marriage,” she counseled, “it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.” I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through 56 years of a marital partnership nonpareil. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade This was posted 1 week ago. It has 0 notes.

# In the 2nd century, Irenaeus said the glory of God is the human person, fully alive This was posted 1 week ago. It has 0 notes.

# Draw the circle wide. This was posted 1 week ago. It has 0 notes.

# And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please. This was posted 1 week ago. It has 0 notes.

# If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This was posted 1 week ago. It has 0 notes.

# You learn from the part of the story you focus on. This was posted 1 week ago. It has 0 notes.

# It is unclear what rich people are for. In the most generous interpretation, the rich are here on earth for the same ineffably profound reasons that other people are: to create and aspire, to love and be loved, to live and die and eat the sandwiches of their choosing. But the ways in which extreme wealth continues to warp and diminish and generally impoverish the world raise the existential stakes significantly on the question. The people who have the most also tend to demand the most, and on a level that ordinary people can’t or won’t demand things. The rich fund institutions and armies of credentialed factotums to recast their greed and dull, atavistic desires as valid ideologies, and politicians spin all that corny dross into policies, and it all piles up downstream from there. It chokes, it floods. Some rich people also collect art, to be fair, although that’s mostly because art is currently the most expensive thing a person can collect. This was posted 1 week ago. It has 0 notes.

# But images and videos have never captured the world as it really is—they simply create a new understanding of that world from the light that emits from and reflects off of objects. This was posted 2 weeks ago. It has 0 notes.