Prompted by a Bruce Springsteen concert and the haunting guitar of Tom Morello, I finally revisited The Grapes of Wrath. What I found was a startlingly relevant map for 2026—and a mirror for my own journey through deconstruction.
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From The Grapes of Wrath to a couple of recent discoveries, a few things from this week that have me thinking about we are better together.
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I finally got to see Bruce Springsteen live the other night. It was an amazing concert, but in many ways it felt like so much more.
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A reflection on desire, disappointment, and the strange truth that what we’re reaching for is often less important than the reaching itself—told through a dog walk, a philosopher, and the things we’re convinced will finally make us whole.
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A reflection on regret, life choices, and why the “better path” we imagine often keeps us from living fully in the present.
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What do you do when everything’s going right but you still feel lost? Deliver Me from Nowhere captures that moment in Bruce Springsteen’s life, and maybe in ours too.
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Thoughts on ‘Tonight in Jungleland,’ a wonderful book on the making of Born to Run–one of the greatest albums in rock history.
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A reflection on tools, calling, and learning when to stop trying to be everything for everyone.
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