Ahoy! Welcome to the first Contemplation Station on our journey: Detroit! Every week, we’ll visit a new place in the world, because, hey, a station has to be somewhere.
Right now, Detroit is going through tough times. I’ve never been here myself,...
My mind is stuck. For roughly two years I’ve had the same plaguing thoughts at least once a day, with no relief around me. I consider a small miracle if I go a few hours without struggling with certain hurts and discomforts.
My sophomore year in college I proclaimed myself “an Aristotelian.” Beyond thinking the moniker would impress a certain class of women, I had read the philosopher’s theory of “the golden mean,” that is, a...
