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Podcast Episode: The Burden We Call Love
Note: The underlying article can be found at https://ajprokop.com/2026/06/29/the-burden-we-call-love/ Pip: There’s a phrase most of us have said at least once — “I don’t want to be a burden” — delivered with the quiet confidence of someone who has never actually thought it through. Mara: Andrew Prokop has been thinking it through. Today we’re covering… Continue reading
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Podcast Episode: Where do the Children Play
Note: The underlying article can be found at Where do the Children Play. Pip: There’s a site called Can You Hear Me Now, which is either a meditation on human connection or a very long complaint about cell service — and today, Andrew Prokop makes the case that it’s definitely the former. Mara: Andrew Prokop’s latest… Continue reading
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Podcast Episode: Our Profile in Courage
Note: The underlying article can be found at Our Profile in Courage. Pip: One phone per house, one number for the whole family — and somehow, that’s the metaphor Andrew Prokop reaches for when talking about a Kennedy Profile in Courage award. It works, which is the mildly annoying thing about good writing. Mara: This… Continue reading
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Point and Click
Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawerI was taken by a photograph of youThere were one or two I know that youWould have liked a little moreBut they didn’t show your spirit quite as trueYou were turning around to see who was behind youAnd I took your childish laughter by surpriseAnd at the… Continue reading
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Rising to the Level of Love
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Tao Tzu I recently finished reading Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels. Like most books I read these days, I found it in one of the many Little Free Libraries scattered around my neighborhood. Thankfully, I live among… Continue reading
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