I don’t write on Sundays
I don’t write on Sundays. Much. I don’t write on Sundays much. I can’t issue a blanket denial since today is a Sunday but generally, I take the day off. I may jot down an idea or an opening sentence but for the most part, I give writing and social media a rest.
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Heartbroken
An interesting thing about the human heart is it can – and does – break more than once over the course of a life, for a variety of reasons.
My son moved out today and I’m heartbroken…
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I just want to be happy
How many times have you uttered the cry, “I just want to be happy”? I’ve done it too many times to count. Truthfully, we might just as well wish we were a pineapple. We’re as likely to be successful.
We engage in all kinds of behaviours we believe will make us happy. We chase it with everything in us. Ironically, sometimes the behaviours themselves end up making us miserable…
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50 things I’ve learned in my first fifty years.
I’m turning fifty this week – thank you – and it occurs to me that I’ve acquired some knowledge and insight in that time. I thought it might be interesting to sit with myself and figure out what some of that is. As you travel through life, you pick up interesting bits and pieces of information and form ideas about this, that, and the other. In the interest of symmetry, I decided to share fifty of mine. Some are deep, and some less so.
So, in no particular order, because I’m simply writing things down as they occur to me, I present my list (which, now that I’m finished is very long, so apologies for that):…
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From Famine to Feast 