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Stop Wishing for Peace on Earth
Whenever I’ve had the opportunity to make a wish, my stock response has been to ask for peace on earth. With world peace, I thought, everything else would have a much better chance of falling into place. If we could direct our energies elsewhere, surely we’d focus on the greater good, right? Well, it was…
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More Wishes
When I was a child, I used to imagine that if a genie granted me three wishes, one of my wishes would be more wishes. As if I were the only person on earth to ever have thought of that. As if I’d never run out of ideas for wishes. As if I were a…
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Having What I Need
I had another epiphany last night. (I know. Watch out!) I can’t afford to adequately heat my home, but I have a warm sleeping bag, a comfortable bed, a roof to keep the rain off my head, and walls to (more or less) block out the wind. I’m starved for human contact, but my dog…
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Fascinating
It always surprises me when other people aren’t equally engrossed by the things that I find interesting. I have no idea why that is. You’d think I’d have learned by now. But how can you not enjoy a really good book or a well done PBS documentary? How can you not loose entire afternoons when…
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Love Me, Do.
Recently I spent time in the presence of someone whom I can’t even look at without getting butterflies in my stomach. He makes me blush. I feel like I’m in junior high school. And he knows I have a crush on him, because I told him. He gives me mixed signals. Sometimes he flirts, sometimes…