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Happy Nowruz! Yay! Winter’s Over!
With all this chaos, I think we could all use a little Nowruz right about now.
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A Brief Pause for Failure
Don’t give up. Things will change.
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Signs of Hope
It’s helpful to know that the valleys of your life moved you forward on your journey every bit as much as the peaks did.
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“I Bought a Dog Today.”
The milk of human kindness still flows.
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Dream Crushing
I used to know someone who seemed to delight in crushing others’ dreams. When I was young, she approached my mother, all concerned, because I talked about wanting to be a teacher, when the week before I wanted to be something else. My mother responded, “She’s a kid. She’s supposed to try different ideas on…
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Letter to a Future Love (In Hopes That He Exists)
I’ve been looking for you for years. I often wondered if you were right under my nose and I just wasn’t seeing you, or if I wasn’t looking in the right place. More than once I thought I saw you, and you just couldn’t or wouldn’t see me. I always wondered if you were reading…
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Knock, Knock, Knocking on Mortality’s Door
Spring is a time when life feels so abundant. Flowers are blooming and there are baby animals everywhere. Spring, for me, is the most hopeful time of the year. I went decades without experiencing it because I lived in Florida. Now that I am in Seattle, I have that hope once again, and I will…
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Plan “Be”
I can’t remember where I read about this concept, but it appeals to me greatly. Just be. Live in the now. Don’t dwell on the past or worry about the future. Pure bliss. It’s not as easy as it looks, though. For example, I’m in the midst of planning my vacations for the year. Obviously,…
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Cherries
While sitting in my back yard the other day, watching the sun drift slowly down to the horizon as my beloved dogs destroyed stuffies on the lawn, I was reveling in how sweet my life has become. It’s every bit as sweet as the fresh organic cherries that I was eating. In Florida the cherries…