39.3-2.6 Framing Series, Set 2 of 3 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 6 begins with a question that does not stay contained to public life. It follows me into the ordinary moments, where there is no audience and no reward for getting it right. That is where the real measure starts to show.
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38.3-2.5 Framing Series, Set 2 of 3 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 5 explores a hard question that does not stay abstract for long: where does love quietly become control? Kahlil Gibran helps me think about love not as possession, but as presence strong enough to guide without gripping. The deeper work in this essay is not sentiment. It is restraint.
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37.3-2.4 Framing Series, Set 2 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 4 · C. S. Lewis and the question he leaves behind: What am I becoming by what I love? Not what I claim in public, but what I give my time, attention, and defense to when no one is watching. The deeper issue is not what I believe, but what is quietly shaping me and, in turn, shaping what I pass on to my daughters.
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36.3-2.3 Framing Series, Set 2 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 3 · Temple Grandin’s work challenges where we place blame. Behavior often reflects design more than individual failure. When we change the system, we often change the outcome.
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35.3-2.2 Framing Series, Set 2 (Thinkers of Our Age): Thich Nhat Hanh teaches me a steady sequence for ordinary pressure: return, breathe, and choose. In the car, in conversation, and at home with Hanna and our girls, attention becomes moral discipline, and kindness becomes a practiced return.
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34.3-2.1 Framing Series, Set 2 of 3 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 1 · Viktor Frankl and the inner beam of meaning. When life tightens, titles and comfort can disappear quickly, but authorship over response remains. Frankl’s witness presses a demanding question: what kind of person will you choose to be when circumstances narrow?
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33.3-2.0 Framing Series, Set 2 (Thinkers of Our Age): Introduction · A guided introduction to the second set in my Framing Series, featuring modern and near modern thinkers whose ideas shape meaning, character, compassion, justice, and hope.
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32.3-1.12 Framing Series, Set 1 (Parables), Essay 12 · A reflection on stewardship, ownership, and what we are responsible to pass forward.
The Stream Through the Property explores a simple image: a cup serves one, a pitcher serves a family, and a stream belongs to the community. This essay considers travel, fatherhood, and the quiet responsibility of caring well for what flows through our lives.
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31.3-1.11 Framing Series, Set 1 (Parables), Essay 11 · A parable about ambition, alignment, and defining enough before success expands unchecked.
The Mexican Fisherman challenges the instinct to scale without reflection and asks a direct question: What are you building toward, and why? This reflection explores work, fatherhood, and the cost of chasing what may already be within reach.
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30.3-1.10 Framing Series, Set 1 (Parables): Essay 10 · A shoreline filled with stranded starfish becomes a test of responsibility. This reflection explores scale, mercy, fatherhood, and the discipline of acting even when the problem feels too large to solve.
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