Fear can rule our hearts, damage our hope, and wreak havoc on our plans. But fear is often irrational, unfounded. In a sense, fear "fakes us out" of decisions we might have made, the trust we might have expended, and

I remember someone saying years ago, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." Right now, in our culture, we are experiencing a large number of events and decisions that involve benefits that are implied as "free." We operate in

It happens frequently. We're in conversation with someone, and the natural inclination is to start formulating our response, our rebuttal, our own ideas. If I were "cartooning" this, I would put competing bubbles in the air that kept being advanced