Welcome to the Commune podcast. This is Jeff Krasno.

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from the spiritual to the socio-political. And on occasion, I will also record an audio

version of these articles and release it here as a bonus episode.

So this week's missive explores the Hellenistic philosophy Stoism.

And per usual, there's a fair share of Madcap family adventure in there as well.

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Instagram at Jeff Krasno. Without further delay, here's this week's commusing

titled Perception, Action, and Will.

Skyler's family has a loathsome Parchese pastime.

For those born this century,

Parchese is a dusty analog board game of Indian descent in which players move small figurines around a track in attempt to get home.

Like most human-conceived derbies, one competitor's success comes at another's misfortune.

With an auspicious roll of the dice, one player can land on another and send them back to the

proverbial womb, from which their inexorable march, home, must begin anew. It's amusing enough, if prosaic, in its

designed form. However, Family Grant has injected additional intrigue in the form of chocolate.

When one participant lands on another, not only do they delight in delivering the forlorn

player's piece back to its original

holding pen, but they also receive a bonbon of their choosing from a classic box of seas, nuts,

and chews. Of course, this rendition of the game hardly pops off with a bunch of middle-aged daughters on plant-based diets,

but with a gaggle of children in the mix, it becomes a highly animated cut-throat death match.

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