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The Changing Face of Trust

Trust today means having a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. The word derives from 13th century Old Norse, traust, “to rely on, make strong and safe....

Writing

Endings are Hard

Endings are hard because an ending, even that of a book, a work, or a year, doesn’t mean that everything stops. An ending is usually the beginning of something else. This is inherently both good and b...

People

Thoth, Thamos, and Truth

Thoth was an Ancient Egyptian deity who served as the scribe of the gods and was said to have invented writing and hieroglyphics. He was the creator of science, religion, philosophy, and magic, as wel...

Society

Irrationality

Have you ever made a decision that was not only completely out of character but completely brain-dead? Like the time you were offered a genuine Rothko for a song but declined to buy it because it didn...

Philosophy

The Tao Te Ching

In Western culture, The Tao Te Ching is thought to be more about the individual than the state, but that is not the case. Like The Art of War by Sun Tzu and the writings of Confucius that came later, ...

Insights

Borrowing Trouble

I was reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery. This is a book I’ve read more than once, and one I highly recommend for its warmth and its many characters. In it, I came across the expres...