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Posted on November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

Trying to do too much – lessons from the Life Study, the Trappists and David Mamet

Here is a post on my other blog “A Medical Education” inspired by a passage in Helen Pearson’s “The Life Project”, which I reviewed in the TLS. An understandable tendency to…

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Posted on February 6, 2017March 1, 2017

“Whether our work leads to victory becomes irrelevant to us” Jeffrey Bilbro on the happy loser

I am not (yet) familiar with the work of Wendell Berry, though I think I am going to make it my business to be. Berry is the inspiration of this wonderful…

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Posted on April 26, 2016

From “The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria” John W Kiser

I also began to better understand why my exposure to the Trappist culture had a certain resonance for me. Simplicity is one reason. Doing less, not more, and doing those…

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