Scott Marcus

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I share two truths about this frightening, unprecedented time: It will take longer to pass than any of us want and it will not take as long as we fear.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What if peace is already happening – and all we have to do is look for it?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Note: I originally wrote this 16 years ago. I'm over-the-top pleased to bring it back with a slight update.

ThreadsShare In recent years, we have witnessed a proliferation of new EU Member State measures and cases that seek to block the access of the public to specific internet content. These have been enacted at the Member State level, mainly in an effort to reduce online piracy. But little consideration has been given to their apparently limited effectiveness, or of the possible risk of overblocking, much less the costs imposed on network operators and service providers. The enactment of different and mutually inconsistent rules by different Member States has led to fragmentation and tension between these rules and EU guarantees of freedom of expression (as embodied for instance in the goals of the Open Internet Regulation).

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Friends and family would tell you I have not been my usual ebullient self of late.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This month is 22 years since I wrote my first column, originally as short observations about weight loss and good health for a now-defunct weekly paper.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What would life be like if you released all expectations of how things should be, taking your

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I don't know what I was looking for, but the circumstances of coming across the envelope were enough to freak me out.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I had great plans — phenomenal, if I'm being honest.

What does count is taking time to appreciate fully what we have in this brief pause between mysteries, as well as our ability to be centered in the present — despite the fears of the future or resentment of the past. Possibly most s…