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breaking up is hard to do
You get to a point in any breakup where nothing really surprises you anymore. The tears have dried up, in fact it will likely be years before those resources are fully replenished and there is a sudden, strange sense of calm. A slightly eerie, damp calm like the kind that comes over the lake after [...]
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Trimming the Fat
Trimming the fat – an expression used literally in cooking to refer to the trimming of excess fat on meat. Why? Because no one wants extra fat in their food…that slimy coating on the tongue is one of the grossest dining experiences and is inevitably followed by the undesirable ‘fat in the gut’ feeling. Like [...]
Continue ReadingFree To Take it Elsewhere
A few days ago the U.S. District Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by unpaid Huffington Post Bloggers who felt that in the wake of the Huff’s sale to AOL for $315 million, its evident success in the marketplace might be, in part, due to their submitted content, which helped to build the community, the [...]
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naked before my god
the universe will never give you more than you can handle, so it’s said and written and foretold that on the night of dying the tinniest death a glimmer from the ashes may become a flame once again and reborn may you be when you thought there was nothing. it does become everything again from [...]
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if only someone had told me…
There are days I can remember so clearly. When I lay awake in the hospital room, going on 39 hours of no sleep after giving birth to my son and still needing nothing more than the air I breathed and the sound of his breath next to my chest. …when I fell asleep immediately after [...]
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It’s not that bad
“It’s not that bad”, he said with a distant gaze and greater appreciation for the wine he sipped than the relationship to which he was referring. Not. That. Bad. I know. I’ve said the same thing many times. To myself. To dear, concerned friends. ..and to many others over cocktails and alcohol-induced laughter to avoid [...]
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You Can’t Ignore Yourself Forever
Unhappiness – ignored – compounds. Unaddressed, it compounds into frustration. Frustration is the soul killer, the destroyer of relationships, the robber of dreams. When the soul is dead, the relationships are broken and you can’t remember of what once you dreamt, there’s nothing left but sadness, so deep and vast now that it must be [...]
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Climbing High in NYC
Because sometimes we all need to climb something really big, no matter how small we feel.
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in three words
Robert Frost said, in three words I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on… No matter how hard we try to resist it, whether we bury our heads in the sand or become workaholics to ignore time’s incessant tick, life always carries on – with or without us. Most of us [...]
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from random thoughts to life legacy
beliefs become our thoughts, thoughts become our words, words become our actions, actions become our habits, habits become our character, character becomes our legacy… This simple philosophy has been espoused in a myriad of different ways. So many, in fact, that I couldn’t pick one to quote. From Gandhi to Margaret Thatcher to just about [...]
Continue ReadingTalking Points
so far I can tell you this much:
i write, i yogi, i mother, i love deeply, i treasure my family, i adore my friends, my favorite possession is my passport; will philosophize for good wine...
