Take what you can use, disregard what doesn’t resonate, and share as you’re led…
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Connecting the dots
There are no stand-alone messages, just as there are no stand-alone life lessons. Every lesson is the dot and each message retained from the lesson is the master stroke connecting you to the next. Often these lessons and messages will not make sense to us while we’re in the midst of them, so they may…
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When what it LOOKS like isn’t what it IS
I have an imaginary husband. This is a running joke of many people I grew up around. I stop short of using the word friends to indicate that while those who amuse themselves with this anecdote are certainly friends in the schoolmate historical sense of the word, we remain friends merely in the genuinely happy…
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What are you going to “do” with it?
Every time I hear somebody ask what they’re going to “do” with something, I think of this clever dialogue between Arthur Siegel (a lawyer) and Mark Forman (a columnist), characters the in the Nora Ephron movie (one of my favorites) based on her book, Heartburn . Arthur: “What can I say? I’ve always been terrible with colors. It comes from having…
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So you’re a fuck-up
Guess what? WE ALL ARE. Some people just don’t know it yet. Some never will. Contrary to popular belief, it’s been laid on my heart that being open to fucking things up is a positive thing because it means you’re doing this thing. You’re in it. You’re working it. You’re willing to fail, look stupid,…
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The “soft animal of your body”
I watched in awe a few weeks ago as wild geese flew daily over my dog Finn and I on our morning walk, loudly honking their presence and sending Finn into a barking frenzy of frustration, running in fastdogfastdog mode across the field, believing he could somehow reach them. We both have a tendency to…
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