Tim Gorman
Why “I don’t know what happened, I just ended up at the bar” is almost never the whole story, and what Aristotle and Cicero can teach us about cross-examining the smoothest talker we’ll ever meet. You went for the free breakfast. That’s all. Scrambled eggs. Mini muffins. A 90-minute “informational session” at a resort outside … Read More
Location 09 · Becoming — where a foreign widow gives up everything on a road she can’t see the end of, a rich man walks away sorrowful because the price was too high, and a Danish philosopher insists that purity of heart is to will one thing A value you’ve never had to pay for … Read More
Location 08 · Becoming — where a woman comes for water at the loneliest hour and leaves her jar behind, a Spanish nun maps four ways the soul gets watered, and a monk finds God in a sink full of dishes Some things feel like water because they stop the thirst for ten minutes. That’s … Read More
Why you can’t think your way out of something you won’t feel If you’ve spent any time in treatment, you’ve probably met the chair. It’s nothing fancy. It’s usually one of those stackable ones with metal legs that shriek across the floor. A therapist drags it into the middle of group, points it at you, … Read More
Location 07 · Becoming — where a man who swore he’d never fail is asked, three times, only whether he loves; a runaway rehearses a smaller name for himself and his father refuses to use it; and a monk in a prison cell writes “whoever I am, Thou knowest” By the time most of us … Read More
Location 06 · Reckoning — where two estranged brothers weep in each other’s arms and then, wisely, go separate ways; a betrayed man forgives long before he trusts; and a theologian who watched his homeland burn asks whether you can embrace the enemy Recovery wakes up the urge to fix everything at once — and … Read More