The Man in the Sonar Chair
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This is a place to think honestly about leadership, desire, faith, and adulthood—especially when life gets complicated and the old stories stop working.
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The Bill You’re Already Paying
Last week on The Book of Faces I posted that I had room for three people in a new program I’m offering called Overcoming Overwhelm.
Flip the Record
Somewhere in your house is the “equipment of rest” you have not used.
The Day Off That Never Showed Up
Here is an inventory of one man’s day of rest — a Saturday, not long ago — reconstructed from the evidence:
The Calmest Person in the Building
Is the One Deciding What's an Emergency
The Siren and the Furniture
Here is a man at 6:45 on a Monday morning, standing at his kitchen counter.
The Argument You Keep Losing to Your Own Body
Here is the nightstand of a person trying to think their way to calm.
Life During Wartime
You wake up at 5:47, thirteen minutes before the alarm, heart already at cruising altitude.
The Most Ignored Theater in America
Somewhere over Nebraska right now, a flight attendant is performing the most ignored piece of theater in America.
The Patron Saint of Everyone Else
Somewhere in your phone there is a record of every appointment you’ve made in the last twelve months.