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Wonder
8/31/2026 The Foundations of Wonder
9/1/2026 The Wonder of Being Here
9/2/2026 Benefits of Wonder
9/3/2026 Wonder and the Fight Against Despair
9/4/2026 The Practice of Wonder
The Examined Life
9/7/2027 The Examined Life
9/8/2026 The Risky God-Ask
9/9/2026 A Daily Time Audit
9/10/2026 The Silent Part of Examination
9/11/2026 Self-Examination for Living
Attention
9/14/2026 We Become What We Behold
9/15/2026 We Become What We Think
9/17/2026 The Rarest Form of Generosity
9/18/2026 A Warning for Our Fading Attention
Leadership
9/21/2026 A New Kind of Leadership
9/22/2026 The Aim of Leadership
9/23/2026 We Did This Ourselves
9/24/2026 The Humanity of Leadership
9/25/2026 Leadership from Another Realm
Fear
9/28/2026 The Kryptonite of Fear
9/29/2026 Fear and a Fictional Future
9/30/2026 When Fear is a Good Thing
10/01/2026 No Fear in Death
10/02/2026 You Are Not Alone in Your Fear
Work
10/5/2026 Our Little Garden: Why Work Matters
10/6/2026 Work Makes a Terrible God
10/7/2026 We Need Artists and Gardeners
10/8/2026 Where Gladness and Needs Meet
10/9/2026 A Prayer for the Work Ahead
Creativity
10/12/2026 Made to Make
10/13/2026 The Cost of Not Making Things
10/14/2026 Rick Rubin on the Play of Making
10/15/2026 The Superpowers of Creativity
10/16/2026 Battling the Monetary Machine of Creativity
