She will fall. She is young and bright-eyed with sharp elbows, tiny fingers on the rough bark, her slender ankles dangling. She is thirsting for the prize ripening at the tree’s fingertip, glossy and fragrant and sweet; Sunlight breathing on her arm, she extends her quivering fingers unsteadily toward the apple and I can…
The famous Canadian psychologist, public speaker, and journalist Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, The Tipping Point) has a podcast. Called “Revisionist History,” it aims to give the past a second chance. More specifically, it takes something widely accepted—an event, controversy, book, person, phenomenon—and examines it from a completely different perspective. I was introduced to this podcast through…
Fights over crayon colors and who has the larger muffin eventually shift to whispered planning of pranks on parents. There would be more emotional arguments and dirtier jokes shared, and a deeper understanding and a strengthened bond would ideally result from them. The relationship between siblings is unique, fascinating, and inherently powerful in the sense…