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Back to black
The cement of society amounts to a thin place that refuses to be exploited and homogenized. The world is flat once again, as nation-states, cities, and towns have gone back to their most nativistic urges. Globalization was never ruthless enough, spread unevenly amid the digital divide, and invariably vulnerable to the power-hungry few. The market…
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The gift of raw emotion
The visceral, like laughter, flows through the heart and blood before hitting the brain. Laughter doesn’t need thought. We intuit emotional impulses, with no intention to describe what…
The business of living
The temptation to linger in maximum comfort — life isn’t a warm shower, you know. One typically extends a staycation at the sight of pleasure or during a…
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Thoughts are seeds
Examining the world, collecting artifacts, awaiting that sudden flash. To believe that epiphanies are a result of short-term thinking is a canard. Good…
What comes next
We are always becoming, making inferences about our future. Often times, such guesses lead to mistakes. But error is the only way…
Our fragile, famous lives
The cafe was the original newsfeed, a meeting place to exchange ideas and to find out what the heck was going on…