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Or How Orson Scott Card Taught Me to Understand Shakespeare Without Uttering a Word
Category: Change Encounters
Human Changings I Have Met
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His 50-Year Goals
4 Minute Read
In Timor-Leste, I meet a man who foretold the future.
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Orson Ball’s a Friend of Mine
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In which I declare a sixty-year-old event, diagnose it thirty years later, and foretell its future thirty years later still.
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Performing ‘on Broadway’
11 Minute Read
Or How I Inadvertently—and Then Intentionally—Impersonated a Secret Service Agent at a Special Preview of The Phantom of the Opera.
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The Kindness of Strangers
11 Minute Read
In which I commit to becoming the stranger I wish to meet in the world.
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Failure Is Not an Option. It’s an Imperative.
10 Minute Read
The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is. Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Few analogies to the Law of the Harvest command our imagination more vividly than sports. From the proper and timely preparation to compete, the contest itself, and its completion within a fixed timebox, the organic microcosm of athletic competition condenses the lessons and patterns of […]