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Throw Me the Ball! (Side B)

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“These are kids. It’s a game! You should be ashamed.” Before taking a summer break from writing, I posted Side A of this two-parter, suggesting that when tight ends, teachers, and emergency medical responders demand ‘the ball,’ they do so largely from their heart. Intrinsically prepared and quietly confident, they sense that in their hands, the situation can only get better. But if their motives are ‘largely’ unselfish, what are we to make of those […]

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The Lemonade Stand

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“There is no such thing as a long-term, sustainable, competitive advantage.” So preached my graduate school Microeconomics professor, often enough that the old saw about the supply bone connecting to the demand bone sums up the totality of my remembrance from business school forty years after graduation. That, and, of course, The Lesson of the Lemonade Stand.

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As the Crow Rightly Flies

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Is There Method in Your Migration? [For Josh] Through my library window this morning, I spied above me several murders. One after another, a dozen crows each, they jagged toward some unknown conspiracy convening somewhere to my north-north-west. They came our way for years, in October-November, until bird flu knocked them from the sky a decade or so back. They must have resurrected.

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Throw Me the Ball! (Side A)

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“So, what’s it going to be?” invites the savvy supervisor, loathe to micromanage, slow to bail out her team, and dead determined not to have the last word.

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Were You Here?

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“There are only two sorts of people on this planet. Those who consume culture and those who create it.”

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Achilles’ Calcaneal

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Some risks pose the probability of losing everything against the possibility of winning everything before that happens.

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Who Goes There?

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Confused about good and evil? Consider this modern cancellation of Heaven and Hell and see where it takes you.

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Cosmos Calling

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If ‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them,’ what is your response when the needed thing just needs doing?

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Concrete Turtles

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“With all due respect to journalists,” my father told me at an impressionable age, “lawyers hang their mistakes, doctors bury theirs, but architects and engineers fix theirs.”

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Is Your Coffee Cold?

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That saying about being only as strong as your greatness weakness? It’s for people who don’t know where to find their weakest strength.