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I like routine. Structure. Order. Lists. I really like lists. I have a daily “To-do/goals” list on my Mac that I, at some point, transfer to my phone that ultimately gets written down on a Post-it Note next to all of the above. Pointless? Maybe. But it makes me feel better. Like I’m in control. While […]

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“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks  and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I’ve been afraid to write. It’s been how […]

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I’ve always loved the early morning. Like way before you can see hints of pink and orange gracefully stretch out and scatter across the horizon. I love the darkness. I love the quiet at home, save for strange noises like the sputters of the hot water heater and the squeaks from ancient floorboards. Seems like […]

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We tend to immortalize people who died. At funerals, you rarely hear someone euologize the deceased by sharing some of their questionable qualities.

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Yesterday afternoon, an older-man-acquaintance-of-mine told me I looked like someone who is currently on a reality TV show where they showcase some impressive talent. 

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I have a friend who I didn’t like for a long time. I had heard from this-person-who told-that-person-who-told-her-sister-who-told-her-hairdresser (or something like that) that she said something nasty about me. So ever since then, I held a grudge. She wasn’t aware of it. And through that grudge I was able to find things about her I […]

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I’m practicing the discipline of silence. Spending time in the quiet. Just me and the mysteries of the spiritual. Why is silence so hard? Easy. It’s like giving my mind free reign to wage a maniac compulsive thinking spree. This is why it’s hard for me to ‘be still and precisely why I need to […]

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In the past week I have been the aww-shucks-gosh-darn-it recipient of little blessings that, wrapped in a pretty ribbon of optimism and glorious surprise, mean a whole lot. At least for me.

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Depression. There are studies out there that show depression among the Amish folk is rare. And, well, we don’t need fancy research to know that millions of regular American folk are plagued with some degree of depression—from having a continual case of the Mondays to the inability to cope and committing suicide. I know this […]