Tom Zanki

Veteran deals editor and reporter at @Law360. Musings on music, sports, faith + politics are mine. Proud American of Croatian descent.

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

Men tend to get lonelier as they age.

One reason is that many of their friendships are built around shared interests rather than shared inner lives.

There's nothing wrong with golf, fantasy football, or talking about work. But if every conversation stays there, it's possible to spend years surrounded by people and still have nobody you can tell the truth to.

I've met countless successful men who can name dozens of colleagues and acquaintances but struggle to identify a single person they could call in a moment of real pain.

By middle age, many have become fluent in banter and almost illiterate in confession. The friendships that endure are often built through small acts of courage: asking the deeper question, giving the honest answer, and risking being known.

Loneliness rarely arrives all at once. It accumulates quietly, one surface-level conversation at a time.

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@GenTXer2 Some Girls

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@JamesSurowiecki @ManifestHistory An occasional break in the OT can make it easier to stick to the program. Plus, you get a glimpse of what's eventually revealed. For example, if you committed to reading the Bible in a year, you wouldn't get to the Gospels until about October.

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@JamesSurowiecki @ManifestHistory Some find reading the entire Old Testament straight through challenging, so there are reading plans where you can occasionally skip ahead to Psalms, Proverbs, or Gospels before resuming the regular order.

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@ManifestHistory Follow Father Mike Schmitz's Bible In A Year podcast schedule. It's largely in order with occasional jumps to Psalms, Proverbs and Gospels interspersed. It's a well-thought-out sequence.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The Sacrament of Reconciliation restores our unity with God through the forgiveness of sins and the infusion of sanctifying grace. This generates the inner unity of the person and unity with the Church. It fosters peace and unity within the human family. One might ask: do those Christians who bear serious responsibility in armed conflicts have the humility and courage to make a serious examination of conscience and to go to confession?

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Fasting is a concrete way to prepare ourselves to receive the Word of God. Abstaining from food is an ancient ascetic practice that is essential on the path of conversion. It helps us to identify and order our “appetites,” keeping our hunger and thirst for justice alive and freeing us from complacency. It teaches us to pray and act responsibly towards our neighbor. #Lent

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@FischerKing64 The Gospel transcends political boundaries.

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@VintageRockN_85 Charlie Watts

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@charlesmurray Not a geezer - yet - but yes I can identify. The emotional investment isn't the same anymore. I can watch games when attending in person (that’s a genuine experience) or meeting up with friends at a bar (that's a social event), but can't sit at home and watch TV for three hours.

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@hormonedietdoc 14 to 20, sometimes two, occasionally three a day. Depends on the size of the egg.

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@coookwithchris Bananas

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@GenTXer2 Mick Jagger, the one and only.

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@Mikehomeseller Yes, six times.

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@vtchakarova Croatia is exceptionally safe, according to this map.

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@NFL_DovKleiman Ozzie Newsome

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Agree

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

Unpopular opinion: Physical books will always be better than e-books.

Agree or disagree?

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@GenTXer2 Come On Eileen is a top contender.