Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Questions of Reliability
In Richard Ford's "Displaced," the narrator remembers Niall's charm and limits in the same breath—what drew mother and son in cannot be counted on, and closeness founders on whether a person can be truly relied upon.
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Baseline
An ADDA essay stresses that ADHD partners who will not name what is broken—“something has to change”—leave couples with nowhere to go; owning the baseline is the prerequisite for counseling, meds, education, or repair.
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False Imitation
Kevin Baker's Harper's essay skewers prestige art in new subway stations where celebrated names stage celebrities play-acting as commuters—asking whether civic space serves riders or curated imitation of ordinary life.
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Paying Attention
The Lao Tzu line suggests depression clings to the past, anxiety to an imagined future, and peace tracks attention anchored in the present moment.
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Richter
In this interview excerpt, Gerhard Richter rejects inconsistency as empty virtuosity and ties shifting style to irreducible uncertainty—arguing that total certainty is naive or dishonest.
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Posttraumatic Growth (6/17-6/18)
Barbara Bradley Hagerty summarizes psychologists Tedeschi and Calhoun on post-traumatic growth—when trauma shatters core beliefs about justice, benevolence, or control, some people do not bounce back to baseline but rebuild worldview, goals, and friendships wholesale.