Author: Scott Knell

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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.

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Got Mystery? (Solve for U.)

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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —William (the Alchemist?) Shakespeare

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Got Gut? (Try Not to Spill It.)

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When someone tells you it’s not personal but only business, do they believe their own rhetoric? Or merely hide behind an unreliable cliché?

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Got Wit? (Keep It Under Your Hat.)

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These days, we often hear the phrase, “If you see something, say something.” But does the same admonition hold for when we KNOW something?

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Got Bone? (Break a Leg!)

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Aquinas argues deliberate will. Descartes thinks and, therefore, is. Celine belts My Heart Will Go On. But sometimes, the body just does stuff.

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Long Division

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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 7

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What Flag Are You Flying?

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If the proper aim of life were handwritten on a secret card before we drew our first breath, what would it say? 

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What Game Are You Playing?

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The games we play can end in a minute or go on forever. What happens when we lose track of which game is which?

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Just Open a Vein

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[For Sotir] Douglas Thayer, a beloved mentor of whom I have written more than once, held that no one, including his own spouse, ever wants to read what writers have to say about writing. “Writers should be read and not heard,” was how he put it. Doug, if heaven has eyes for this sort of thing, please forgive what you are about to read.

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When’s Your Train?

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Remember that proverbial squirrel spinning its heart out inside the black box of anything that is mysteriously mobile? If Erwin Schrödinger was right, before looking under the lid, there’s an equal chance the mysterious power source is something else entirely.