"What if we take this seriously? What gifts is it going to give us if we love something, and we love it with rigor, and we love it with commitment?" —Reading Harry Potter as a Sacred Text Strikes me as an important question for many things in our lives that we trivialize because they aren't … Continue reading Reading Harry Potter as a Sacred Text
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Essays/Articles That Opened Your Mind
"Potential to alter/broaden the reader’s perspective, however slight. More than anything, I want stuff that’ll provoke thinking. Maybe you read something you're still mulling over long after? That's what I'm on the lookout for. Good examples of this are Jess Zimmerman’s Toast piece on emotional labor, Adichie’s TED Talk on the danger of a single … Continue reading Essays/Articles That Opened Your Mind
