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Soulful Sundays: Safety Trap
"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often." -Mae West "Safety is an illusion, as is faith without temptation." -Ken Liu...
Blake Storey
Aug 6, 20224 min read


Soulful Sundays: Atypical Day
"The way you live your days is the way you live your life." -Annie Dillard "The perfect is the enemy of the good." -Voltaire A reader...
Blake Storey
Jul 30, 20226 min read


Soulful Sundays: Self-Deception
“The first principle is not to fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. " -Richard Feynman "How easy it is to make people...
Blake Storey
Jul 23, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: Passion
"Despair, when not the response to absolute physical or moral defeat, is, like war, the failure of the imagination." -Adrienne Rich "The...
Blake Storey
Jul 17, 20224 min read


Soulful Sundays: A Priori
“The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards...
Blake Storey
Jul 10, 20225 min read


Soulful Sundays: In(ter)dependence Day
“God is dead...And we have killed him...Who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of...
Blake Storey
Jul 3, 20224 min read


Soulful Sundays: War on Masculinity (Act II)
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain "God will not have his work made...
Blake Storey
Jun 26, 20225 min read


Soulful Sundays: War on Masculinity
"If you don't initiate the boys they will return to burn down the village." -African Proverb "A harmless man is not a good man. A good...
Blake Storey
Jun 19, 20224 min read


Soulful Sundays: Depths of Dionysus
"I am not here. Touch me, Mother, so that I may be here." -Samuel Coleridge “The goal is to live with God-like composure on the full...
Blake Storey
Jun 12, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: Know Limits
"I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities, not in...
Blake Storey
Jun 3, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: Self-Sabotage
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...
Blake Storey
May 29, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: The River Bank
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— We murder to dissect. Enough of...
Blake Storey
May 22, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: Mind Prism
"You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously. Gratitude is the antidote to both fear and anger." -Tony Robbins "We hold the keys to...
Blake Storey
May 15, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: Another Way
"If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall." -Antonio Gramsci "In three words I can sum up...
Blake Storey
May 8, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: Falling Up
"Growing up is less about finding the things that define you and more about forgetting the things that do not." -Anonymous "All great...
Blake Storey
May 1, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: The Social Ape
"One finger cannot lift a pebble." -Hopi Proverb What do you think is the most important determiner of a healthy, fulfilling, and long...
Blake Storey
Apr 24, 20224 min read


Soulful Sundays: Barefooting
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in...
Blake Storey
Apr 16, 20226 min read


Soulful Sundays: Shadow Work
"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell." -Carl Jung "The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas...
Blake Storey
Apr 10, 20224 min read


Soulful Sundays: Forgiveness
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -Mahatma Gandhi "It is more shameful to distrust our friends...
Blake Storey
Apr 3, 20223 min read


Soulful Sundays: Monotasking
monotasking: (noun) 1) the practice of dedicating oneself to a given task and minimizing potential interruptions until the task is...
Blake Storey
Mar 27, 20223 min read
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