Stockhausen, Picasso, and Egg on your Face
Getting it wrong — and faking it — turned out to be useful. It taught me what real understanding takes, and how hard it is to ask for.
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3 | Loving the Least of These While Working for Justice with Martha Hennessy and Dr. Cornel West
Martha Hennessy and Dr. Cornel West reflect on the legacy of the Catholic Worker movement and the ongoing call to comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable, and disarm the world with love.
Thunder on the Keyboard
Sometimes the most powerful music is the kind that proves you wrong.
Re-Risking Society
The most unforgettable lessons are often the ones that would never survive a curriculum review.
Objects of Worship
Even ordinary habits can become objects of worship — and battlegrounds for meaning.
The Self-Made Myth Is Holding Us Back
We’ve been told we can become anyone if we just try hard enough. But what if becoming is always a shared act?
Vagaries of the Brain
What seems like chaos to one person is harmony to another. You can live side by side for decades and still be discovering how differently you experience the world.
For Those Standing at the Threshold
How threshold moments show up in our lives, what they ask of us, and why Grokkist exists to support the messy, meaningful work of crossing from one chapter to the next.
On the Ball
Sometimes your body dives before your mind agrees — that’s when you know you’re on the ball.
