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Perspective

I saw a woman smile.  It was a smile that lifted the crease from her brow and made the tears that had welled in her eyes catch the sun just enough to make them diamonds refracting tiny reflections of hazel...

Why Me?

They say that there are no accidents. Life is this amazing, infinitely organized tapestry and every person and experience is an important thread in the bigger picture.  They say that, but sometimes you have to wonder when you work in...

Crisis

Crisis.  Per our generation’s go-to resource for all information, Wikipedia, crisis is ‘any event that is, or is expected to lead to, an unstable and dangerous situation…deemed to be negative changes…especially when they occur abruptly...

Benefit of the Doubt

I was driving home from work, and I use the term ‘driving’ loosely as my usual 40-minute commute stretched into a Friday night 3-hour parking lot version of itself. (Speaking of which, is the irony of the term ‘rush-hour’ lost...

A mile in your shoes

It is frequently said that you control your reality and the world is simply how you perceive it to be.  Our brain wants to make sense of the world, our lives, bodies, interactions, and all stimuli and it constantly looks...

Sweet Little Lies

What if you meant what you said? I mean every single word.  (Well, maybe not every single word…I can think of some slang that would be pretty awkward *grin*) But what if you were present and aware of what you...

What are you afraid of?

Do you ever wonder what are we still afraid of? We were children once, afraid of the world, afraid of getting in trouble, afraid of speaking up, afraid of falling or failing, afraid of being different or what our friends would...

Today

Every day is just a day. Just a collection of time that we gather together and name so that it holds some meaning for us…first, last, only…they are all the same really. Just moments strung together to shape time. Precious. May...

Good habits and action verbs

So many things in life become common place. Things, phrases, behaviors just become secondary; simply habits that we have taken on a regular basis. Some of them are good habits, things we learned at a young age…please and thank you,...