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Moments with Wisdom: Seth Godin Prompts Knowing & Caring
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Moments with Wisdom: Seth Godin Prompts Knowing & Caring

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On February 1, 2023, Seth Godin posted this on his blog: In search of insights […]

Moments with Wisdom: Dr. Long on Education as Foundation for All
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Moments with Wisdom: Dr. Long on Education as Foundation for All

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Every Harvard undergraduate and graduate class gathers in Harvard Yard—all together for one commencement exercise—and […]

Moments with Wisdom: Will Guidara on “Grace Notes”
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Moments with Wisdom: Will Guidara on “Grace Notes”

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In Unreasonable Hospitality Will Guidara shares the power of “a grace note, a sweet but […]

Moments with Wisdom: Tennessee Williams on Creating While We Can
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Moments with Wisdom: Tennessee Williams on Creating While We Can

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In “Tennessee Williams on a Streetcar Named Success” (originally published in The New York Times […]

Moments with Wisdom: Sue Miller on Shaping the Work and Meaning
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Moments with Wisdom: Sue Miller on Shaping the Work and Meaning

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In an essay on writing—on making meaning through storytelling and fiction—Sue Miller writes: “For the […]

Moments with Wisdom: Anne Lamott on “the gifts of being a writer”
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Moments with Wisdom: Anne Lamott on “the gifts of being a writer”

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In her introduction to Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott […]

Moments with Wisdom: Emily Dickinson’s “Bloom”
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Moments with Wisdom: Emily Dickinson’s “Bloom”

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BLOOM by Emily Dickinson Bloom — is Result — to meet a FlowerAnd casually glanceWould […]

Moment with Wisdom: Michael Roth on Why Liberal Arts Education Matters
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Moment with Wisdom: Michael Roth on Why Liberal Arts Education Matters

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Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth, in his book Beyond the University, makes the case […]

Moment with Wisdom: Maria Popova on Lives too Various
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Moment with Wisdom: Maria Popova on Lives too Various

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Writer Maria Popova, in her life’s work The Marginalian, introduces Marcus Aurelius—“[o]nce a heartbroken queer […]

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