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Open Bar: Be Kind To Your Future Self

Milestones, while temporally predictable, are nonetheless arbitrary as they concern the arc of one’s life.  Reaching a benchmark is theoretically…
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Open Bar: Steal Your Face Right Off Your Head

The MARTA train doors hissed open, revealing a scene of decadently joyous humanity straight from a Bosch landscape.  A high…
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Open Bar: The Limits Of Equanimity

Dichotomies define my existence.  Jewish and Catholic, reckless and disciplined, bookworm and outdoorsman, shy and gregarious, I am often torn…
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Open Bar: Edge Of Vision

The surrounding foliage is an aureate blur in my periphery as fallen aspens crunch under my bike tires.  This is…
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Open Bar: The Long View

I have long struggled to shed my childhood penchant for instant gratification.  Though aware of the need to pace myself…
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Open Bar: The Peanut Gallery

His face cast in the iridescent glow of several late-model high-definition monitors, he tromps away at the defenseless wireless keyboard,…
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Open Bar: Bravery Comes In Many Forms

Flames torching the willing tinder with more ferocity than even Prometheus could muster, she turns in their direction, her instinct…
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Open Bar: Us And Them

There is a divide rising in this community, one that echoes the many dichotomies that are fracturing this country, splitting…
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Open Bar: On Forward Motion

The hammock is strung up close to the burbling brook, shaded from the fierce afternoon rays.  A refreshing gose sits…
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Open Bar: History Through A Future Lens

Despite Fukuyama’s premature pronouncement, we have decidedly not reached the end of history.  Each new moment seems destined for the…
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