A letter to my children There’s a strange arithmetic to a life. You spend most of it accumulating — knowledge, possessions, achievements, plans — and then, near the end, you start giving it all back. Not the things so much…
Yearly Archives: 2026
When the Right Call Doesn’t Pay Off
The Honest Faith of “Faith Over Logic” – A Book Review Every businessperson eventually reaches a moment that no case study prepared them for. The numbers are ambiguous. The people involved are decent, or at least not obviously villainous. The…
A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Next 250 Years
By: Kenneth Carnesi, Sr., JD The bunting comes down first. Then the folding chairs, the trailers hauling away the stage where the band played, the last sticky puddle of melted ice cream drying on the sidewalk. By the Tuesday…
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The Cheapest Thing I Ever Refused to Give Away
A Letter to the Man I Used to Be By: Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. I know you. I know you better than you know yourself right now, sitting there at your desk with your tie a little too tight and your…
America The Beautiful
Happy 250th, America. Two hundred fifty years ago, a small group of colonists staked everything on an idea: that people could govern themselves. No king, no crown — just an experiment in liberty, carried forward by generations who believed it…
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The Contract We Keep
A Republic Built on Rules Everyone Can Recognize By: Kenneth Carnesi, Sr., JD In a few days, the United States turns 250 years old. There will be fireworks and parades, documentaries and reenactments, the usual pageantry of a nation marking…
One Year from the Average
Choosing to Live — Fully, Fiercely, and on Purpose — at 73 — — — There is a number that has a way of finding you. It does not announce itself loudly or arrive with fanfare. It simply appears one…
On the Eve of Two Hundred and Fifty Years: Reclaiming the Right to Disagree
In a few days, the United States turns 250 years old. A milestone like this invites celebration, but it also invites inventory — a quieter accounting of what, exactly, has lasted. Nations endure for many reasons: armies, treasuries, geography, luck.…
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What Still Remains
A Reflection at Seventy-Three By: Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. I wake earlier than I used to, though I sleep no less. The body keeps its own clock now, indifferent to the hour I’d choose for it. There is a stiffness in…
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