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It had been Benjamin Franklin who developed the list - temperance, silence, order, quality, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, sanitation, tranquility, chastity, humility. Writer and visual designer Teresa Jordan pondered if Franklin's perhaps antiquated notions of virtue might offer instruction to a region progressively more divided by upset righteousness. She made a decision to make an effort to live his list for a year, concentrating on each virtue for a week at a time and taking weekends off to attend to the seven lethal sins. The journal she maintained became this assortment of beautifully illustrated essays, weaving personal anecdotes with the views of theologians, philosophers, ethicists, evolutionary biologists, and a complete selection of scholars and researchers within the appearing field of awareness studies. Though she says never to have aspired to moral efficiency, she was still surprised, as was Benjamin Franklin before her, "to find myself a whole lot fuller of faults than I needed imagined". Teresa Jordan offers a wry and intimate journey into a year in midlife devoted to the challenge of aiming to live authentically. Through her explorations, we come to understand the ethics of time.
