The Book Is Here. And It Is Just the Beginning.
The Janus Plan is in the world. September 15 this month is when pre-orders are released and the book begins its life in the hands of readers. The energy behind this launch has been building for months: the podcasts, the reviews arriving, the requests for workshops and keynotes, the bylines confirmed to publish, the TEDx […]
August Is the New January
While most of us treat January 1 as the singular moment of fresh starts and renewed intention, August has quietly become the most consequential threshold in the lives of millions of people across the United States and around the world. Students are moving into dormitories. Teachers are preparing classrooms. Families are recalibrating routines. Notebooks are […]
Two Hundred and Fifty Years. What Did They Try to Teach Us?
I was not born in this country. I came to the United States from the Philippines as a young man entering the University of Michigan, drawn by the promise that this place has always made to the world: who you were when you arrived is not the limit of who you can become. That identity […]
The Longest Days Are Asking You Something
June 21 is coming. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, the moment when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky and holds there, briefly, before beginning its slow retreat. The word solstice comes from the Latin solstitium: sol, meaning sun, […]
What Mental Health Awareness Month Actually Asks of Us
I’ll be honest: for most of my adult life, Mental Health Awareness Month, which has been around since 1949, was something I acknowledged the way you acknowledge a highway exit sign. Noted, passed, and forgotten. I need to get to my ultimate destination. That changed this May. Early in the month, a woman and a […]