Britta | NoSoup4Knowles

This one hurts. I have never accepted the false binaries the culture demands. Star Trek or Star Wars. Kirk or Picard. Beatles or Stones. Trek, Kirk, Beatles, by the way. But I love them all. Captain Picard is my captain because the Next Generation is my Star Trek. Not my first Star Trek. Not my favorite Star Trek. But it is the Star Trek of my time, and it is full of all of the things -- good and bad -- that define my youth. It is optimistic and charitable, sometimes to a fault. It is self-assured and confident, sometimes to a fault. It believes in the future and it believes in people, sometimes to a fault. But I have to say, it was a better outlook than the one that permeates today. May we find our way forward to the best ideas of our past, not forgetting the lessons we've learned along the way, but without the pessimism and nihilism that have accompanied those lessons. As the good captain once told us: "Things are only impossible until they’re not."

Gary Sinise is a good man and a good friend. I thought I knew his story. Then he wrote a book called Graceful Warrior. When Gary found out his son Mac had cancer, he went into “Navy SEAL mode.” What followed became a story of grace through suffering, agency over victimhood, and finding life while losing it. As Mac's world grew smaller, his life grew larger and deeper. So did Gary's. As St. Augustine said in Mac's favorite quote: "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." This is the most moving conversation we've ever had on the show. Watch it with someone you love. youtu.be/UgbqF2pjC1I?is=vuCP…