Introduction The Sun Also Rises Today: Five Stories About the Life That RemainsA century after The Sun Also Rises, the world looks almost nothing like Hemingway’s. We carry entire libraries in our pockets. We can work from another continent, choose from thousands of potential partners, reinvent careers, cross oceans overnight, and remain connected almost … [Read more...] about The Sun Also Rises Centennial Stories: 5 Modern Lives
love
The Sun Also Rises Themes & Analysis: Questions That Still Matter
Introduction A hundred years after The Sun Also Rises first appeared, the world surrounding Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley is almost unrecognizable. The wars are different, travel is faster, relationships are mediated through phones, gender roles have changed, and people possess freedoms Hemingway’s characters could scarcely have imagined. Yet the novel’s … [Read more...] about The Sun Also Rises Themes & Analysis: Questions That Still Matter
The Sun Also Rises Centennial: Are We a Lost Generation?
Introduction One hundred years after The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s characters still feel unexpectedly close to us.Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, and Bill Gorton lived in the shadow of the First World War. They inherited a world in which familiar ideas about patriotism, masculinity, love, religion, … [Read more...] about The Sun Also Rises Centennial: Are We a Lost Generation?
When Love Outlives Death: Grief, Consciousness & Connection
Introduction What happens to love when someone dies?The body is gone. The chair is empty. The phone no longer rings with that person's name. Yet something strange remains.We still speak to them in our thoughts. We repeat their sayings. We make their recipes. We hear their voice in our memory. Sometimes we dream about them with such clarity that waking feels … [Read more...] about When Love Outlives Death: Grief, Consciousness & Connection
Anthony de Mello’s Awareness: 5 Lessons for Modern Life
Introduction What if the life we are waiting for is already happening?We often imagine that happiness is just one achievement, one relationship, one change, one moment of approval, or one answer away. We tell ourselves that when something finally changes, we will relax. We will feel secure. We will know who we are. We will begin living.Anthony de Mello’s … [Read more...] about Anthony de Mello’s Awareness: 5 Lessons for Modern Life
Anthony de Mello’s Awareness: What Does It Really Mean?
Introduction What does it really mean to "wake up"?In Awareness, Anthony de Mello argues that much of human life is lived almost automatically. We inherit ideas about success, happiness, love, identity, religion, and even ourselves, then gradually forget that we inherited them. We begin treating our conditioning as reality.But some of de Mello's most … [Read more...] about Anthony de Mello’s Awareness: What Does It Really Mean?
Anthony de Mello’s Awareness: Waking Up Through Comedy
Introduction What if being awake and having your eyes open are two different things?In Awareness, Anthony de Mello makes a provocative suggestion: much of human life is lived almost automatically. We chase success because we learned that success makes us valuable. We seek approval because being liked feels like proof that we matter. We acquire things … [Read more...] about Anthony de Mello’s Awareness: Waking Up Through Comedy
War and Peace Lessons for Modern Life: 5 Short Stories
Introduction What happens when life refuses to become the story we expected?In Parts 1 and 2 of this War and Peace trilogy, Tolstoy's characters and later Tolstoy himself with literary scholars explored a similar question from different directions. Plans collapse. History exceeds individual control. Love can contain devotion and injury at the same time. … [Read more...] about War and Peace Lessons for Modern Life: 5 Short Stories
War and Peace: An Imaginary Conversation on Life
Introduction What if the life we keep trying to reach is making us overlook the people already beside us?In Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, ambition, love, faith, and family unfold within events no individual can fully control. People pursue recognition, belonging, certainty, and happiness. Then life interrupts. A battle changes the meaning of glory. A … [Read more...] about War and Peace: An Imaginary Conversation on Life
The Art of Fighting: 5 Stories About Conflict, Love and Belonging
Introduction What if the people we fight with are the very people we most want to keep?Inspired by the central themes of Priya Parker’s The Art of Fighting, these five fictional stories explore conflict where the stakes are deeply personal: a father watching his son choose a different future, a wife who has hidden herself behind decades of peace, an employee … [Read more...] about The Art of Fighting: 5 Stories About Conflict, Love and Belonging