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The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

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There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good – for the self, for those we love, for ‘our neighbor,’ for our earth.

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I always knew I’d keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I’d get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I’d write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I’d be able to quit and try writing full time.

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May 14, 2024

I always knew I’d keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I’d get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I’d write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I’d be able to quit and try writing full time.

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May 14, 2024

There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good – for the self, for those we love, for ‘our neighbor,’ for our earth.

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