NYTIMES (Boris Fishman) - To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped.
I had no idea what would help with my problems, but I knew what wouldn’t: talking about them. Which is why a silent retreat turned out to be exactly what I needed.
AMERICANTHINKER - The Garden Refuge
Photo Credit:Public domain Public Domain By Lars Møller Some of us are fortunate enough to recognize the garden as a heavenly refuge in the midst of a chaotic world.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Peter Tonguette) - The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine
Is there something to be said for enforced stillness? The post The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine Is there something to be said for enforced stillness? “I said I think that a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and changing it either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them,” said the novelist Henry Miller in a talking-head segment from Warren Beatty’s much-honored 1981 biopic of the Communist journalist John Reed, Reds. Although the film itself worked overtime to aggrandize its protagonist—he was, after all, played by Beatty, then in full command of his charm and screen presence—Miller did the opposite: The sly, devilish author of Tropic of…Open
AMERICANTHINKER - A toast to history: A dozen decades that led us to now
By Eric Utter Milestones over the decades -- a reflection.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Peter Tonguette) - The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers
In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen. The post The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen. As an inhabitant of one of the cities caught up in the nationwide heatwave earlier this month—Columbus, Ohio—I can confirm that the weather was stifling. The heatwave has dropped out of the news—that will happen when a Democratic Senate candidate has ended his cataclysmically ill-advised candidacy and the Iran War peace deal has evidently failed to hold—but the temperatures remain persistently unpleasant. But, having learned from my upbringing in the reliably hot and humid suburbs of New…Open
NYTIMES (Dan Kadlec) - Technology Ruined Our Lazy Days at the Lake
Living at the lake house taught me about risk taking and other life lessons.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Finya Swai and The Hill) - Former presidents reflect on America at 250: ‘Constant work in progress’
Their sentiments struck a common theme: the U.S. has prospered since its founding in 1776 because generations of Americans have worked to fight for democracy.
NPR (Susan Bence) - Reflections on America's 250th birthday
NPR member station reporters across the U.S. asked people how they are thinking about their country on its semiquincentennial.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Look back at America’s 1976 Bicentennial
"GMA" looks back at the nation's Bicentennial celebration in 1976 and how Americans marked the country's 200th anniversary.
AMERICANTHINKER - Two birthdays apart
By Greg Maresca The mood is unmistakably different from the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976; can we rekindle a shared sense of patriotism and purpose?