43.3-2.10 Framing Series, Set 2 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 10 · Mother Teresa presses a difficult question into ordinary life: who is in front of me right now, and am I fully there? This essay reflects on love made visible through small acts, interruptions, family, service, and the person we are tempted to walk past.
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42.3-2.9 Framing Series, Set 2 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 9 · Maya Angelou makes me think less about volume and more about responsibility. This essay asks what it means to use words with dignity, restraint, clarity, and courage, especially when silence may serve better than one more sentence.
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41.3-2.8 Framing Series, Set 2 of 3 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 8 · A laugh can clear the air or leave someone smaller. I have done both. This essay wrestles with where humor reveals truth and where it quietly hides from it.
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40.3-2.7 Framing Series, Set 2 of 3 (Thinkers of Our Age): Essay 7 asks a hard question about what we bring back from the roads that change us. Joseph Campbell becomes a lens for looking at thresholds, not as dramatic adventures, but as ordinary crossings that test whether hardship leaves us smaller or more useful to others.
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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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