Category: Life

To the Fools

Why fools and tricksters aren’t all that bad.

Soaring

Soaring. Sometimes birds, especially the big guys like hawks and eagles, don’t flap their wings at all. They find an updraft, spread those feathers, and ride the wind. In our lives we can also ride the wind. There are streams of energy to be tapped into, habits that no longer take much effort, procedures that…

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Snapshot

I ask myself, sometimes
How can I remember this moment?
But I don’t know yet;
the memories only flow
one way

World Building

Sometimes when my partner comes home And has to let himself in He’ll ask, “Why was the door locked?” And I don’t know what to say. Because I’m woman? Because I was home alone, and that’s what you do; You walk with your keys unsheathed And you never leave your drink, or visit the bathroom,…

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18 Ways to Marginally Improve Your Life Right Now

If you’re like me, you want to do big things that get big results. The reality is that improving your life is not black and white, and you can take small steps right now to incrementally make yourself feel better, one breath at a time. Add up enough little things and they start to make…

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Random Thoughts on Forgiveness

I like to play around with words. Forgiveness, in its original and primary sense, refers to the cancellation of a debt. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word comes from for–, (probably meaning in this case “completely,”) and giefan, meaning “to give”. So when you forgive a debt, you basically just change whatever the…

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Moving Beyond Triggers

The trigger isn’t the trauma. For example, a veteran with PTSD might be triggered by loud noises. We understand that the loud noises are associated with the trauma of experiencing a battle or surviving an attack. But the loud noises are not what actually caused the damage; they are just something the brain has associated…

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