Joan Westenberg: A normal life has room for contradiction. You can care about nutrition and eat cake at a birthday p...

Joan Westenberg: A normal life has room for contradiction. You can care about nutrition and eat cake at a birthday party. You can care about sleep and stay up late sometimes. You can care about politics and have friends who don’t share your every worldview. You can care about your work and still close your laptop when your kid wants you to play Uno. You can be spiritually curious and still be skeptical of people selling enlightenment subscriptions. You can be disciplined and still be fun. You can be principled and still be kind. This shouldn’t sound radical. None of it should sound radical. It only does because our culture has become so stupidly binary.