Gunnar Larson Gunnar Larson

Take the bait

Recently I had resolved to become a better manager of my own life. During an intense period professionally, I decided in a manic state one Tuesday evening (naturally) to put more effort into the total architecture of the human existence I fortunately had been gifted. Halfway through the present decade it seemed a number of things my parents’ generation had taken for granted began to disappear, and I wanted to grab them tightly before they slipped through my fingers forever.

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Gunnar Larson Gunnar Larson

2025 in the Rearview: on Personal Freedoms

I have a personal tendency to group things together, to find commonalities between things that are otherwise unrelated. I know this is not unique to me alone; it’s a bedrock human character to find (or build) order among chaos. Throughout 2025 there has emerged among the films I’ve seen and the books I’ve read a common thread that somehow became intertwined with the personal, emotional journey I found myself experiencing. 

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