Category: Life
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Leaning Forward
Have you ever noticed your parent’s music collection? I’m sure many of you have been subject to your parents playing music for you while you were growing up. For my father, in his time, it was records. And my father’s collection was mostly based on 70’s and 80’s rock. I remember the most recent thing…
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How to make friends with anxiety
A few years ago, I had this nagging feeling, I’m not sure where it came from. It was a whisper. “What if?”. I hadn’t really had this feeling before. I didn’t know how to identify it, so I ignored it, and just went on with the general day to day of what I consider an…
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Pink is a girls color?
“Pink is a girls color”. “Where did you get that shirt, the women’s section?” “Why are your nails painted?” “Are your ears pierced?” The pink and blue thing has an interesting history. It wasn’t until between 1950 and 1990 that pink was declared a “girl” color. That is relatively recent, and as you can see…
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Burning Man through these 52 year old’s eyes
Re-entry has begun. Re-entry is the term that is used to describe what participants at Burning Man feel when they have to return to their daily lives. For those that haven’t spent time at Burning man by choice or lack of good timing and luck, this is similar to the feeling of coming off of…
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A story of asking, and receiving
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal…
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Eldest son is leaving for college…is that what this feeling is?
So, it might not coming to a huge shock to those parents out there that have had the wonderful opportunity to send your child away to school. This is that week for me. And I am finding it much more difficult in ways I didn’t expect. A little background, my son splits his time with…