1. Maybe you don’t need a therapist: O. Alan Noble says, “I suspect that many people don’t need to see a therapist, or will only need to see one for a brief time to deal with an acute problem like the loss of a loved one. Everyone will suffer. Everyone will need wise counsel and encouragement and guidance and someone to talk to, but not everyone needs that guidance to come from a licensed mental health professional.”

2. We can’t be friends: T.M. Suffield writes on the absence of deep male friendship and how to buck the trend, “And perhaps, if we put the work in, we might find the Tolkien to our Lewis, and laugh delightedly in the Bird & Baby for many wonderful hours, and then for the countless eons after the resurrection.”

3. What the future holds for those born in 2024: An interesting exercise from the MIT Technology Review. Karen Platoni foresees AI factoring in significantly. (Note the impact of the secular worldview at play in these predictions.)

4. Biblical lists of sins in reverse: What do the Ten Commandments look like when we reverse them? C. Michael Patton with a helpful exercise.

5. 13 of America’s wackiest mascots: The atom smashers has to be one of my favorites. And the Poca Dots? 

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