On Transcendence

On Transcendence

BONUS – Midnight Is a Threshold: Persevering in the Present Tense

How Midnight in Paris teaches the courage to follow a dream when support is thin—through the lens of the MPGP

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Dr. Baruti KMT-Sisouvong
Oct 07, 2025
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As we wrapped the last scenes of a recent Family Movie Night, we wondered what to watch next. We’d just come off Emerson’s Marvel Cinematic Universe marathon, then—at Chloë’s urging—Valerian. As I scrolled our library…

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