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A crisis of confidence, very bad ideas, and paying for Peanuts

The Friday Pillar Post

Ed. Condon
Oct 21, 2022
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A crisis of confidence, very bad ideas, and paying for Peanuts

Happy Friday friends,

I don’t know how your week has been, but in my house, our daughter has become so fixated with a picture book called “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” that I have begun reciting a nonsense litany of animals under my breath like some kind of monastic prayer.

I don’t really understand children’s mental development, but it is be…

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