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For the Love of Others and Authors

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School of Life 19 July 2026 The Discipline of Impossible Love in Western Philosophy and Tradition Some forms of sincere heartache arise from rejection, betrayal, or indifference, yet another form is more difficult to resolve because neither person can dismiss the connection as imaginary. Two people may recognize a profound attraction, inspire one another intellectually and creatively, and still remain unable to build a life together. Their feelings may be reciprocal, their understanding may be unusually deep, and their bond may continue despite every rational argument against it. Yet, there can arise a tramendous grief which comes from having encountered something that feels meaningful while knowing that meaning alone cannot make the relationship possible... Western philosophy has repeatedly returned to this conflict between desire and circumstance. Plato understood love as an experience of lack, Aristotle distinguished emotional affinity from a life shared through action, ...
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Land, Cattle, and POWER

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OKLAHOMA LEGACIES Land, Cattle, and Power The Drummond family’s rise in Osage country, the history Hollywood left outside the frame, and how Attorney General Gentner Drummond now stands at the intersection of ranching, politics, and America’s beef crisis By Miami News-Digest  July 2026 The hamburgers served at the Osage County Fairgrounds were made with Drummond beef. It was Jan. 13, 2025, and Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond had returned to Pawhuska, near his family’s sprawling ranches, to announce that he was running for governor. Hundreds gathered beneath a campaign slogan promising service to ordinary Oklahomans rather than the political elite. Drummond presented himself as a combat pilot, prosecutor, businessman, cattle rancher, and independent-minded attorney general. The setting could hardly have been more appropriate. There was cattle, political ambition, a celebrated Oklahoma family name, and land in the heart of the Osage Nation. What the campaign sc...
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Singer Songwriter Series : Sean Keith's "Snappin' Peas and Rolling Pennies"

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Q: Your first song, "Snappin Peas, and Rolling Pennies"... What's it about? Tell us a little bit about the lyrics. A: At its heart, it is about the feeling that "someone" can be both your destination and your home. I wrote it from my own emotions and personal journey, but the more I listened to it, the more I realized that it existed within a much older mythic tradition. Older than the Greeks... or Egyptians, or recorded history. This was transcribed on the human heart. Q: Wow... So...The verses move through scattered images: snapping peas, rolling pennies, dandelion wishes, awards, islands, storms, crowds, and finally the quiet intimacy of holding hands and seeing someone’s face.  They sound like memories from one life, or fragments collected across many different lives.  A: Sure...There is ordinary domestic happiness, childhood, innocence,  stuggle...besides fame, travel, hardship, and longing. Yet through it all, it seems to be pointing toward the...
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Atmospheric Circulation without Presupposed Global Geometry

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Atmospheric Circulation without Presupposed Global Geometry Cyclostrophic Sign Degeneracy, Stationary-Planar Mechanisms, and an Assumption-Explicit Program of Model Comparison Abstract The familiar association between pressure systems and preferred directions of atmospheric circulation is commonly interpreted through equations written for a rotating spherical surface. This interpretation is strongly developed mathematically and has extensive predictive applications, but the interpretation should not be confused with the observations themselves. This paper asks what may be inferred from atmospheric circulation without presupposing either spherical geometry or surface rotation. Five principal findings emerge. First, cyclostrophic balance determines the magnitude of tangential velocity but not its clockwise or counterclockwise sign. This sign degeneracy applies to vortices in which an inward pressure-gradient force supplies centripetal acceleration; pure cyclostrophic b...
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