It isn’t easy to choose, there’ve been so many. There’s the time I yelled at my daughter, or crashed my car… Wait, favorite? Does that mean the most enjoyable memory? Or maybe it’s the one I learned the most from. That would be the time I lost my temper at my future mother in-law for having just abused her younger daughter. I was told to leave. I turned to my soon-to-be wife and asked her to leave with me and marry me. We got married the next day; we had been secretly engaged for a...

Seedings by Michael Hagan ∞ with Monica Kemp René Descartes established a new era for Western philosophy when he wrote, “I think; therefore, I am.” I am able to think; therefore, I exist. Man, unlike animals, is self-aware. It is humankind’s ability to think that sets us apart from the animal heritage from which we sprang. But to completely leave the animal in us behind, we need a higher goal than the creation of tools. Thinking is only the first step toward truly...

Our typical day-to-day choices are more a personal series of small daily options between the right path or the diversion, the shortcut.