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There isn’t a person I’ve spoken to who hasn’t experienced big things in 2025. It’s certainly been a year of lessons, transformations, reflections, losses, gains, pain, healing, and with luck, ...

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We don’t care about Trump one iota. We care about the things he’s hurting—healthcare, values, discourse, honesty, food, science, parks, immigration reform, gun reform, climate crisis for all future ...

Everyone and their mom knows, at least intellectually, that the whole of creation is in a state of endless revolution. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “No same man could walk through ...

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Everyone around us struggles in marriage. But you wouldn’t know it because most people feel bad about their struggle, so they hide it. I have yet to meet a couple who were not challenged to some ...

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