January Joys: Smiles

I don't think anything shows joy better than smiles, so I suppose that with how much I smile it makes sense that I have a lot of things to be joyful about. I like smiling, and laughing. I try to surround myself with happy and funny people in a quest to increase the number of …

Allegory of the Cave, Part II

Culture is an interesting thing. Basically, a group of people gets together and decides, "This is how we want to live," and bam, it's a culture. But the key part there is that it's a group of people, a community. This idea came up in the discussion I had with Anya today after our reread …