The blunt object of limited information

Last week, I read the greater part of How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer, a gift from a friend. It confirmed a couple of things I’ve suspected for a while: Intuition is simply a subconscious processing of information we’ve been gathering all the while, not some...

Calling Fear’s Bluff: Ropes Course Style

I got it in my head that I had to do the ropes course at the Greensboro Science Center for my 40th birthday last month. You may recall that I’m afraid of heights. So, late that Saturday morning, Theresa and I, along with my oldest friend (in duration, not age)...

An 11-Story Descent from Fear to Possibility

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison This past Saturday morning at 11am, I was leaning backwards off the ledge circling the roof of the Patrick Henry Hotel in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, throwing...

The Ordinariness of Extraordinary

One of the many things I loved about the movie Selma was a scene, no more than five minutes long, maybe only a couple of minutes, that alluded to Dr. King’s infidelities. He cheated on Coretta. Does that make his accomplishments less valuable? Less astonishing?...

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