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The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life, — chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.
Life Without Principle - 1
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There were more than thirty performers, many of whom, like Russell, qualified as Americana, an umbrella term for country music outside the mainstream. In the Americana universe, Isbell and Shires were big stars—but not on Nashville’s Music Row, the corporate engine behind the music on country radio. It was a divide wide enough that, when Isbell’s biggest solo hit, the intimate post-sobriety love song “[Cover Me Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-s3vuXopS4),” was covered by the country star Morgan Wallen, many of Wallen’s fans assumed that he’d written it.
Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville | The New Yorker
Emily Nussbaum
In the practical order, we find our Original Goodness when planted within us:
we can discover and own these three attitudes or virtues deeply
A trust in inner coherence itself. "It all means something!" (Faith)
A trust that this coherence is positive and going somewhere good (Hope)
A trust that this coherence includes me and even defines me (Love)
The Universal Christ
Richard Rohr
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