Leave Your Mark — essays and old wisdom on living well.
Reflections Kurt Vonnegut wrote a wedding toast disguised as a eulogy for newborns: welcome to Earth, it's round and wet and crowded, you've got about a hundred years, and there's only one rule he knows of.
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Reflections He keeps going viral for the same unremarkable act: giving up his seat, sitting with a stranger, actually being where he is.
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Reflections Steve Martin became famous seemingly overnight in the late 1970s. The overnight part took ten years, and he wrote a whole memoir just to set the record straight.
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Reflections Jerry Seinfeld has a bit about Night Guy and Morning Guy, two roommates who hate each other and never actually meet. It is the most accurate description of human nature ever delivered in a comedy club.
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Reflections Mark Twain said this before anyone had a timeline to post on. He could not have imagined how thoroughly we would ignore him.
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Reflections The need to belong is real. The trap that comes with it is just as real. There is a way through that does not require choosing between them.
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