Everyone knows that life sometimes serves up lemons. Hell, sometimes it feels like you’ve been airlifted into the belly of a grove of lemon trees. But the lemonade soothsayers have long urged us to make from the stuff can still taste pretty bitter if you didn’t mix it in the right frame of mind.
As the world pauses to mark a decade’s passage since its first devastating contact with a new kind of terror, it’s illuminating to reflect on how humans modify their behaviour in times of crisis. Withhold your erupting four-year-old’s flopsy bunny and watch him transform into the picture of sweetness. Deny your defiant teenager her night…
It took forever to arrive and now, after what seems like no time at all, it’s heading for the hills. Summer was, at last, a fair-weather friend. Sure, it offered us butterflies and Slurpees and optimism while it was in our midst. But then it went ahead with its plans to go away—even in…
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself,” author C.S. Lewis once pointed out. “It has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
They call it “soul riding,” and it’s just about the most magical thing on offer for mere mortals with a taste for something more. Here, spirituality finds glorious intersection with exhilaration, the two forces coming together in a storm of powder on the ski slopes. The sensation snowboarders experience as they’re flying down a mountain…