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Living through crisis brings it’s own sense of survival instincts. Probably one of the most important is the grasp that optimism or a positive streak in the mind is helpful. While this is a struggle for myself (kind of a “glass half-empty” guy, or more realistically, my Gen-X cynicism leads me to simply trust few),…
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C. S. Lewis Blog: Adaptation vs. Transformation – Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Experiment. Since most of my readers know that I am something of a Tolkien Scholar (okay, “scholar” is probably too fancy of a word…but I have read much of the extra writings and I know much of the back story), I’ve been asked a…
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Thomas Friedman wrote That Used to Be Us back in 2011. It a somewhat scathing condemnation about the many issues in our country, Friendman lays out a case for how to fix the issue. Partnering with Michael Mandelbaum, the author was determined to write an honest account of what had gone wrong in the country.…