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Essays, reflections, and working notes on operative fraternalism — Freemasonry as a living practice.
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Finding Your Plumb: Purpose Is Not a Destination, It's an Excavation
Purpose is not a beam of light. Waiting for it to arrive is how you guarantee it never does. I
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Patience Won't Fix Your Temper
There's a scene from the old Simpsons that everybody my age files under harmless cartoon nonsense. Homer catches
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Why You Keep Fixing Everyone But Yourself
A friend calls, and three sentences into his problem something lights up in the back of your skull. Quiet, insistent,
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The Debt You Owe Future You: The Level, the Square, and the Work You Keep Not Doing
There is a pile somewhere in your life. Maybe it's physical: a stack of paper on the kitchen
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Surrounded by Brothers and Still Unknown
You can be lonely in a room full of people who have known your name for thirty years. Not because
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Your Body Is Still Keeping Score
Freedom is not the absence of obligation. The man who walks out on his responsibilities in the name of "