personal growth
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On the aesthetics of time.
What if we celebrated the accumulation of wisdom and experience in the people around us?
age, aging, art, beauty, beauty industry, Cara Jo O’Connell, Cara O’Connell, caretaking, elective brain surgery, elective lobotomy, experience, feminism, feminist, Free Falling into the Cosmos, horror novel, Jenn Shapland, knowledge, lobotomy, Luke Dittrich, Maui, memory loss, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Moana, Mona Awad, neurosurgery, personal growth, relationships, Rogue, skincare, staff art exhibition, Thin Skin, William Scoville, wisdom, wrinkles
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On autism and parenting.
My kids are lucky to have such dissimilar parents. Which is happier than thinking I’m the defective parent.
ASD, autism parenting, autism spectrum, autistic parent, building relationships, child psychology, childhood, childhood development, data mining, data-driven dating, dating apps, dating sites, developmental psychology, family, father, fatherhood, growing together, human development, love, mate choice, parenting, parenting on the spectrum, parenting with autism, personal growth, psychology studies, raising a family, raising children, raising kids, relationships, romance
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On power and dignity in defeat.
Winning is pretty easy. It takes effort to get there, but once we’ve done it, most people can act with grace. It reveals more about a person’s character to see how they handle defeat. In the Christian bible, Jesus is a more compelling character than Yahweh. Jesus faces adversity, which sometimes he accepts calmly –…
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