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Brothers under a Mystic roof
"So why do you think people find the choice you've made to be such a novelty, even a kind of scandal?" "I think, it's because this is a hidden life," Brother John Braught says, "Many people don't even know
Susanna Young
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In plain air: The spectacle of looking
They tease me, the Italian men walking in twos along the corso. And the young couples coming in and out of the café pause for a while to have a look. Their children are the boldest and also the most shy, coming close enough for me to hear their quickening
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Ethics of the road
When I got to Munich, my first thought was that I needed cash. Stepping out of the airport at midday, I met sun too bright to comfortably keep my eyes open and felt the heaviness of switching from the U.S. time zone, now six hours behind. I found a
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Moving trains and the meaning of life
Some people try to avoid sitting backwards on trains, and they find it worth wandering for a few minutes between the cars in search of an empty seat facing in the direction of their destination, and preferably, next to a window. These people likely experience the sensation of moving forward