The Beatles and Their Impact on My Life Philosophy

A summary of The Beatles career and their impact on culture. The personal lessons I’ve gained from listening to the group and studying the history of the phenomenon and sixties decade. After doing a deep dive the last six weeks and reading “Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties” by Ian MacDonald,…

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Book Rec: But What If We’re Wrong?

Think about the present as if it were the past. How will we be remembered? What contemporary ideas will be questioned? History can make us look foolish. History was my favorite subject in school. I wondered what people from the past would think of me, a person living in the early 21st century. We’d have…

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Revisiting a Near-Death Experience

What happened? Why me? You ask yourself these questions after a near-death experience. I jumped from a burning tractor. My mind won’t forget it. In a different version of cosmos, this post wouldn’t happen. I grew up on a farm in rural Wisconsin but have lived in Chicago for the last 10 years. During the…

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