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Continue reading →: True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut I grew up reading Vonnegut because he was one of my mom’s favorites. I love his wry humor, his innovative thought process, and his ability to pierce through layers…
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Continue reading →: It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin – and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.Wishing you a very Happy Halloween!
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Continue reading →: No one is insignificant who gives of themselves.We all feel in many ways as if our lives may have barely mattered in the giant scheme of things. Most of us never enter the world stage. Most live their lives in a general state of anonymity. Most have an interconnectivity to their families and friends and feel as…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.Octavia E. Butler Sometimes being a great friend means biting your own tongue. It can happen for hundreds of reasons, depending upon circumstances between you, your friend, and whatever they are going through and whatever you are going through. We do our very best to be a true friend by…
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Continue reading →: Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. CLAUDE MONET Yesterday, as I was reading several interpretations of Sounds of Silence and contemplating the meaning, part of what was going through my mind, was why was…
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Continue reading →: Hello darkness, my old friendHello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence PAUL SIMON This song has always haunted me. Like a…
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Continue reading →: When there’s a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, ‘Maybe I don’t have what it takes?’ They may get defensive and give up. A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacle, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.When you are staring into the abyss of the unknown, and the road seems untenable, what are your options? Do you look at the impasse and decide to call it a day, or do you envision how you might forge that path? We are all going to encounter moments like…
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Continue reading →: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Easy for Emerson to say, I wonder which trails Emerson ultimately created. Going off the beaten path in life is a poet’s dream and and entrepreneur’s bane. To both the poet and entrepreneur, it sounds lofty, ambitious and desirable at the outset. Why not? Forge the way. Leave the others…
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Continue reading →: It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.Do you own your possessions or do your possessions own you?
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Continue reading →: Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.Humans are homogenous but continuously individual.
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