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another new beginning + looking ahead
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Continue reading →: another new beginning + looking ahead“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to…
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embracing funemployment (monthly review)
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Continue reading →: embracing funemployment (monthly review)Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen. ~George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone March highlights + happenings April intentions Open tabs
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A look back at February
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Continue reading →: A look back at February“If we look with curiosity at people who do not share our values, they become interesting rather than threatening. As I’ve grown older I’ve learnt that the world and the people in it are surprisingly interesting, and that the more you look and listen, the more interesting they become. Cultivating…
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Reflecting on 2023
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Continue reading →: Reflecting on 2023Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad;…
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all things January + looking ahead
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Continue reading →: all things January + looking aheadIt could happen any time, tornado,earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen.Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. That’s why we wakeand look out — no guaranteesin this life. But some bonuses, like morning,like right now, like noon,like evening. ~ William Stafford, YES January highlights + happenings February intentions + looking…
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An unexpected goodbye + Nov & Dec review
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Continue reading →: An unexpected goodbye + Nov & Dec reviewNovember was a very difficult month. We unexpectedly and suddenly lost the love of our lives — our pup, Ellie. It was a traumatic experience that involved a normal morning and ended just hours later with us saying goodbye to her. We were heartbroken. We still are. For the first…
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enjoying a real autumn + looking ahead
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Continue reading →: enjoying a real autumn + looking aheadThe daily act of living is the act of chiseling destiny through choice — from the bedrock of all possible lives we could have had, we sculpt with our choices the one life we do have. Those choices can be difficult or easy, conscious or not, made for us or…
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Continue reading →: squeezing in the last bits of summer + looking ahead to October
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is…at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away… Virginia Woolf September highlights October intentions + looking forward open tabs
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August in review + looking ahead
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Continue reading →: August in review + looking aheadThere is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life even, possibly, your own. ~Mary Oliver, Moments August highlights September intentions + looking forward open tabs
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this week in three goods things
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Continue reading →: this week in three goods thingsGood thing number one An easeful Saturday spent outdoors with new friends and ample people-watching opportunities. Good thing number two Checking off two medical appointments that I had been delaying for months. Good thing number three Getting through my first on-call week (work) with minimal impact and the newfound knowledge…