On the English Royal Symbol of What Christ’s Life Meant to People and for the World
Jerry Seinfeld Discovers a Bottomless Pool of Energy
This is too good not to have its own post. In a Zoom interview for Sirius XM back in late May, Howard Stern asked Jerry Seinfeld if it is possible to will yourself to get better at something, e.g. your craft, your life, etc. Both men had just watched The Last Dance docu-series about Michael Jordan, and Howard felt that he had consciously willed himself to become a better talk show host. Here’s Jerry’s response, which is for the ages:
I’m going to adjust your perspective a little bit here. That was not will. What you were using, what Michael Jordan uses, what I use, it’s not will. It’s love. When you love something, it’s a bottomless pool of energy. That’s where the energy comes from, but you have to love it, sincerely — not because you’re going to make money from it or be famous or get whatever you want to get. When you do it because you love it, then you can find yourself moving up and getting really good at something you wanted to be good at. Will is like not eating dessert or something that is just forcing yourself. You can’t force yourself to do — to be — what you have made yourself into. You can love it. Love is endless. Will is finite.
On the Rachel Hollis Divorce: Girl, Here’s Some Mercy
Relishing Other People’s Struggles Just Reminds Me How Little I Believe in Mercy for Myself
Bo Burnham and a Cameo of Happiness
Kanye Rants, Anxiety, and the Insatiable Search for Meaning and Happiness
The Ministry of Weirdness, Courtesy of The Rev. Alfred Yankovic
Or, the Gospel According to Weird Al
Remembering Sy Sperling — and Your Pastor, Minister, or Priest
The Professionals are the Clients, Too
Miss Americana and the Heartbreaking Impossibility of Being Good
When Being the “Good Girl” Isn’t Good
Sitting Shiva for Kobe: On the Complicated Nature of Grief, and Humans
If there’s anything the movie This Is Where I Leave You taught me — besides that Tina Fey should not do accents — it’s about shiva, the Jewish tradition in response to the death of an immediate family member. I’d heard of shiva before but for the first time saw it dramatized in the film, […]
Because It Rains: Why Kobe Bryant’s Death Hit So Hard & Wide
The following was written by Isabella Yosuico. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matthew 5:45) Why has a death like that of Kobe Bryant—and his daughter and companions—hit so many so very hard? Even non-basketball fans have been […]
