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"Kurtz is not the madman in this film. He is the only one who told the truth." I have watched Apocalypse Now maybe ten, maybe twenty times. This time I watched the Redux version — the one with forty extra minutes that most people never saw. And something cracked
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He had 100 post-it notes all over his apartment. Same words on every one. His goal. His identity. The version of himself he was building back toward after his ACL blew out and the suicidal thoughts came and everything he thought he was fell apart. Every morning. Every evening.
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Last week I went to a Yin Yoga class in Wynwood, here in Miami. I’ve recently started going every Tuesday evening with my friend Gian Carlo, who had been inviting me for months. Since I have a little more free time these days, I finally said yes. Yin Yoga
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What Watts understood about community, resilience, and building something real when the system has already left the building
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Family Constellation work doesn’t heal you by showing you the truth. It heals you when you decide to do something about it.
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On mystery, creation, and why artists should never explain their work.
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What Alexander the Great asked for in his final hours — and what it cost me to understand it
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On being a nurse at the frontlines — and what happens when the system you gave your life to stops making sense.
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Five years of Family Constellations and what I found in my ancestral tree
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An observation from a European in the most Latin American city outside Latin America — and what happened when I said it out loud
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What a cheerleader-turned-top-attorney taught me about hiding your light — and why I’ve been doing it my whole life.
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What a documentary about grief, a broken mandolin, and an album taught me about pain, art, and the Hero's Journey