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Mirrors and Self-Image

August 31, 2022

An interesting question came up on the DarkHorse podcast: How do we distinguish mental-illness-derived desire to transform the body from the legitimate desire to match

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Playing to strengths

August 30, 2022

I had a conversation the other day with my son and daughter-in-law. We were talking about some recent story…. reimaginings. I confess I’ve not seen

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Crime and Poverty

August 26, 2022

Coleman Hughes conversation with Rafael Mangual concerning the link between crime and poverty. Coleman Hughes on America’s Failed Criminal Justice Experiment with Rafael Mangual  

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Learning from Mistakes

August 24, 2022

A big part of the reason I’m reading, particularly classic literature, is the intention to learn more about life. Proverbs says to get wisdom and

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Strunk on Style

August 8, 2022

At work I have been editing… not sure if that’s the right term… a few of the books my boss has written. This started out

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.