Tag: perseverance
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Beyond AI: The Real Challenge
An engineer reflects on WPI in the 1960s, the rise of artificial intelligence, and why lived experience—not information alone—remains the true path to wisdom.
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ai, artificial intelligence, Christian life, college life, critical thinking, education reform, engineering, engineering education, experience, experiential learning, Faith and Reason, higher education, learning, lifelong learning, machine shop, memoir, perseverance, personal growth, pilgrimage, practical wisdom, qualifying project, Scripture, slide rule, smartphones, STEM, technology, vocational education, Wisdom, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, WPI -
The Day my Father Arrived
Waiting beneath a dying avocado tree for his father’s arrival, a wandering seeker watches ants rebuild their shattered colony and discovers a quiet revelation about responsibility, providence, and belonging.
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ants, avocado tree, California 1973, Christian memoir, commune life, contemplative writing, deep POV, father and son, literary memoir, memoir excerpt, metaphysical memoir, nature and faith, Path Perilous, perseverance, pilgrimage, prodigal son, Providence, redemption, responsibility, Richard Dell’Orfano, Richland House, spiritual awakening, spiritual journey, transformation -
The Medicine
A young man leaves the ordered stillness of an abbey and steps onto a dusty road, choosing solitude and faith over security in this memoir excerpt from Path Perilous: My Search for God and the Miraculous.
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THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 