The Importance of Small Things

This life thing is far more complex then I had imagined it would be as a young idealistic boy. In a way though it is also more simple. Idealism was a flop — it’s not about some pie-in-the-sky idea. Pure pragmatism misses the point, the essence of life — we are not machines.

It turns out that it is the way that we do everything that shapes the character of our souls — who we are, what we are all about, why we…