[064] Beyond Optimism: A Third Act Credo
I’ll be honest with you — this one came from a place I don’t always write from. A place of genuine uncertainty, and something that might be called frayed faith in the world I thought I understood. A long conversation with a trusted friend cracked it open. What emerged surprised me. I hope it lands somewhere useful for you.
[063] The Book in You
I watched the musical Pippin this week at Washington’s Signature Theater and found myself unexpectedly ambushed by one of the oldest questions in human experience: what does a life of meaning actually look like — and how do you know when you’ve found it? This issue continues our series on Connection, Meaning, and Legacy through the lens of one young prince’s exhausting, grace-filled, utterly relatable search for his corner of the sky. Proust shows up, as he tends to, with something uncomfortably true to say.