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OLD HABITS
It was just who he was. Bryce’s personality was the kind that liked to joke. He joked with a humor that slipped small denigrations with smiles, sold as humor for a laughs equally intended to cut whom they were spoken towards. It was just who he was, and so long as you understood, there […]
ESPECIALLY TODAY
Every day has the potential to be good. Every day, we have the potential to be productive and make a difference: to ourselves and others whom we meet. Some days, we need a little reaffirmation of this before we begin. We all matter. We all make a difference. Remember it. Live it, especially […]
WONDER
We will never fully know what others around us are going through. We’ll never fully know the difference we might make, even when we do not intentionally try, when crossing through another’s life. To someone down, seeking for a reason to rise, we will never know the power in an offered smile in another’s […]
KEEP FLOATING
I read a poem yesterday about someone feeling like they were drowning, losing control and being pulled under the surface of the sea. It made me think back on my own life moments when I felt like I was “losing it.” Often, more so than actual conditions, it’s the panic that does us […]
FAIRYTALES
“Why do you write so much as happiness? Do you believe words are harmless, that they won’t have consequences? People will laugh at you in time.” “I believe words shape thoughts. I believe thoughts shape worlds. I am writing the world I want to see. Why would I want to write it ugly?” […]
MAGIC MOMENT
“…no single day is the same as any other and…each morning brings its own special miracle, it’s magic moment in which ancient universes are destroyed and new stars are created.”—Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Magic lived—the coalescing of force and destiny. Her eyes shone with specks of gold […]
STUDY HABITS
At the Academy, I used to take everything I had to study with me to the library. There were big round tables and I would stack everything I needed to read or work through onto a pile. I would work from that pile, on the right, and when complete move it to a second-forming […]