What Mister Rogers teaches us about this hard summer from a speech back in the Sixties.
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It’s 5:30am. My body is a sweaty pretzel.
It’s still dark outside, but I’ve already begun the day in pain. While my family is resting peacefully upstairs, I am silently debating whether life is worth living.
You see, I am exercising.
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Your dad is an older white man (as I’m sure you are well aware!) I am very far from the experience of what is going on. And so, as this sad scene has played out, I’ve stayed on the sidelines. I don’t have any solutions, so I said nothing. Madonna blew it with her Tweet; I’m sure I might too. And then this morning, I thought of you. My children. And it became clear; I was making a statement. I was “saying” something by saying nothing.
And so, here’s what your dad thinks, for what it’s worth.
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How a midnight prison break by cows helped me appreciate diversity and courage.
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How a simple email about iCloud helped me realize a really hopeful fact about parenting adult children.
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Work—any work—has one fatal flaw, and it kills any chance to get things done. Well, I have the solution. Pretty bold statement, right? It’s true. And, I’ll teach you some Italian on the way. What is work’s biggest problem, and how have I found a solution?
Coming right up.
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When my daughter Brynn was about eight, my days as a selfish, myopically-American businessman changed forever. That shaped her worldview. Now, all these years later, she’s returning the favor.
Frankly, it hasn’t been pleasant. In fact, I’m embarrassed that I had to learn it. Recently, I’m not growing old. I’ve just been getting old.
Here’s how I’m getting closer to what’s good.
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Maybe it’s my age.
I'm finding it harder to watch other peoples’ train wrecks without it also wrecking me.
The Netflix show everyone’s talking about is Tiger King. I just finished it and it’s unleashed a pandora’s box of thoughts and emotions for me. I used to be able to watch shows like these, smile and shake my head at the sheer craziness of others’ lives. I can’t seem to do that anymore. Instead, I want to tell you, in my humble opinion, what it’s really about; why I think it’s so popular, and finally, what it says about us and the people we want to be.
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This pandemic has me worried.
But, I have some good news I want to share. I think it can help us. With apologies to Chumbawamba, I get knocked down. But I found the secret to get up again.
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