Hey Reader,

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Sometimes you can have the sense of rediscovering what you thought you once knew. A feeling or experience that you are familiar with can come forth in a new context and provide you with valuable revelation. Allow yourself to explore the depth of yourself on all sides of your cognitive dissonance.

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Update from Ken

The last two weeks off have been a blessing. I Hope you've been well. Time away from Life with Ken has historically trended towards being a roller coaster of emotions for me. This time was similar however, it had the added experience of allowing me to discover that time away also reinforces why I do this. We have a lot of exciting things planned for this month, I will do a more traditional blog like update for this week's Thursday article. That's it for now, I'll be sharing more throughout the rest of this week and month!

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This is a piece of art that I commissioned from the amazing graphic designer, Justice Dixon! You can see more of his work here. He is available for commissions if your interested in hiring him for a project. Life with Ken will be featuring more of Justice Dixon's work in a soon coming gallery. You'll also be seeing more of this fantastic image as well!
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What Makes what Life with Ken does Matter...

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For the rest of this month we are featuring topics and concepts on Life with Ken that inspire the work that we do. These will be bedrock topics that influence my creative process and are woven in, in some capacity throughout the whole of the Life with Ken structure and ecosystem. The topics being discussed throughout this month will include, "Quality of Information," "Success," "Relationships," and "Financial Freedom." There will be an article and video published together on each of those topics every Tuesday this month! Be sure to subscribe to Life with Ken on Substack so that you can get every post sent directly to your email! We've released the above teaser video to highlight what's to come! Click here to learn more.​

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What I am Interested in This Week:

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Chaos on Campus

This story first broke April 17, 2024. Over the last few weeks protests have been bursting out on college campuses. April 17, 2024 is a relatively significant date because that is the day that Columbia University students built a tent city on the main lawn of the university. This event also just so happened to coincide with Colombia University's president, Nemat "Minouche" Shafik, testifying before the United States Congress on her position on antisemitism on her campus. Following what was surely an embarrassing moment for her Shafik called in the NYPD to disperse the protestors.

Since then protests have been happening all over campuses in the United States to varying degrees and intensities. There have been encampments, blockades, sit-in's, dead-in's, riot like behavior and more. The college students are protesting the ongoing war in Palestine between Israel and Hamas. Israel is ostensibly committing a genocide against the Palestinian people with more than 30,000 Palestinians dead, Gaza brought to ruins, over 1.7 million people displaced, famine eminent amongst the population, an embargo on humanitarian aid, and just last night Israel bombed Rafah via an aerial attack killing 20 people. This was after they warned the already displaced Palestinians backed into a literal corner, to escape to a tent city outside of Rafah.

The college students are demanding a ceasefire and an end to the violence in Palestine, for their universities to divest from Israel, and amnesty from any repercussions of their actions. These protests are not likely to stop anytime soon; there have been protests at the University of California, City College of New York, George Washington University, and most recently in my home city at University of Texas, Austin.

What's interesting about this story is that for me it seems that these protests are really well organized and it's difficult for me to fully decipher. For protests to be cropping up like this there has to be some organization, and organization on this scale costs money. That's not to say that the students at these prestigious universities aren't resourceful but it's a bit of a quandary for me. I've been seeing different perspectives on social media and I need more information to draw a final conclusion, but either way, these protests will reverberate past the end of this school year. Some pundits are referring to this as Biden's Vietnam. Congress also passed a law targeting antisemitic speech on college campuses. The young may not have to be listened to, but they shouldn't be ignored.

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Word of Encouragement

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This week I want to encourage you to not sit idle. I can relate to being in a situation where you know you need to do something, but you don't know what to do. If something like this resonates with you, where you know something in your life requires action but you may be struggling with analysis paralysis, or are adverse to the potential change your actions could incur; I want to encourage you in that your inaction isn't helping you. You sitting back and watching a situation erode doesn't insulate you from the fallout. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen, it's up to you to be proactive, especially when you feel compelled or see the writings on the wall, and set yourself up for smooth transition.

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Have a great week this week!

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Ken

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