From my office.

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IMG_1216ROTB redoThere are exciting things happening here in the ROTB office. I can’t yet pull down a curtain declaring, “Ta-Da!”
But, I have wonderful plans.
I’m working with a business consultant who keeps reminding me that the best way to chop down a tree is to first spend time sharpening the axe. Lots of planning is scheduled for the next months.
As I just configured the new email server to automate the next 9 articles, I can tell you that there are great articles coming. Here’s a preview:

  • Learning from Satan. (Origins of the word and a spiritual exercise we can apply based on that knowledge.)
  • Right, wrong, easy, hard. (How our thinking makes things more complicated.)
  • Addicted (A confessional.)
  • Silent Compliments. (A suggestion that perhaps when people don’t say anything to us, they are actually approving.)
  • Think(less) Emotions. (Again, about how our thinking gets us in trouble.)
  • Enthusiasm with Furrowed Brows. (The relationship between anxiety and excitement are in my eyebrows!)
  • A Fluid Relationship. (Analysis of stereotypes and how we get stuck.)
  • Love. (The four most important things I know about what love really is.)
  • Radical Sufficiency. (A suggestion on how to get more from what is.)

Rabbi Brian Doesn’t Understand

August 10, 2026

In the 18th century, in Hannipol, a small district of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, in present-day western Ukraine, there was a rabbi known as Reb Zusya. Zusya, a pious man, taught about humility and had a strange habit of referring to himself in the third person. Instead of saying, “I am hungry,” or “I don’t understand,” he would say, “Zusya is hungry,”

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Travesty

August 10, 2026

I rewind the etymology podcast 15 seconds because I missed the details about the origin of the word travesty. I want to listen again—more closely—so I learn it, so I can recall it later in conversation… because if I tell you how travesty—from “traverse” and “clothing”—came to mean “shockingly unfair,” you’ll think I’m smart. Lost in that thought, I suddenly

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The Soup We Are In

July 30, 2026

Most of the time, even when we don’t really need to be rushing (and sometimes without realizing we are rushing) a really large percentage of us rush anyhow. Seems we are angled forward, always striving to get ahead. I get it. It’s the soup we are in. Our society conflates productivity, hurriedness, and worth. We take on the flavors around

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77% Weekly Newsletter
77% Weekly Newsletter