Prosperity, Reading, Silence, Voice, Beer - Five Things - Issue #304

Our well-being is local and relative — if you live in a struggling area and your status is slipping, even if you are relatively comfortable, you are probably at least a bit miserable.

When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty.

After years of escaping into music, write…