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Issue № 116
Being enough
How can one find peace and balance in a life perpetually filled with self-imposed tasks and external demands? Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “I have more things to do, than I can possibly ever finish.” Decades ago I wore, “I’m busy!” as a badge of honor. I proudly rushed in to help. I…
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Issue № 112
The balance
How can we find a sustainable balance between striving for achievement and embracing rest, while addressing our underlying beliefs about worth and productivity? A weakness for me is that with each day, I don’t know when to stop striving. Sometimes I fail to plan; I spend the whole day chasing the next, immediate thing todo.…
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Issue № 66
Moving scenery
I like Carl Sagan’s point about humans being able to work magic. (I’ll pause here while you read the quote.) Writing enables us to transmit ideas across time and space directly into others’ minds; It’s a natural and obvious development once we had language and storytelling. I am so far, endlessly fascinated by that. My soul…
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Issue № 24
I probably need to work on this
My life is always better when I treat myself as if I were someone I care about. ~ Hugh Hollowell from, https://www.soverybeautiful.org/how-we-treat-ourselves/ I’m really good at digging in and schlepping through the hard work. I’m really good at figuring out how to make three strange pieces fit together so these four people can make some…