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participants in creation
It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to ...
For many of us, our generational "curse" is avoida...
Dr. Emily Anhalt: A slight shift in perspective ca...
The Book-Banners: Adventure in Censorship is Stran...
Tactical Athletes
Arrested Development & Emotional Stunting
My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi
David Attenborough: Only now are we beginning to u...
How swimming improves mental health
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For years and years, my job was to pile on sand
Focus on Fitness: Exercise and Mental Health
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t ne...
The purpose of your life is not to do as the major...
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with oth...
To go out of your mind at least once a day is trem...
Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow...
We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
Remember the entrance door to the sanctuary is ins...
Yes, I'm waiting for them to die
Look for opportunities to practice imaginative cou...
Ray Bradbury and Mr. Electrico
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life: Dr. Cheung & ...
Raymond Carver poem
As a teen I had no boundaries.
I truly despise groups. Tribal folks are like okay...
Pain is not a punishment, pleasure is not a reward.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better...
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hu...
Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide...
Why Introverts Love Swimming
What if you’re being quiet because no one else is ...
This being human is a guest house. Every morning i...
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their ey...
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has be...
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that...
You dance inside my chest
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that d...
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment
silence is the language of god, all else is poor t...
Become nothing
Be notorious
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've t...
Stop acting so small.
The moment you accept what troubles you've been gi...
Dream
...people liking you or not liking you is an accid...
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--fro...
We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's...
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I s...
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Turkey Burgers
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Solo Swimmer in a New Land
I just woke up from a cat nap with my dog.
Murakami
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a heroic vocation
growth and innovation is possible. There’s no age ...
Roald Dahl
She had promised herself that her children would n...
'You think we’re a family,' Cody said, turning bac...
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a b...
Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test...
When my characters join the circus, I’m joining th...
two parts of me
Mostly it’s lies, writing novels. You set out to t...
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I hav...
For my own family, I would always choose the makes...
It is very difficult to live among people you love...
It’s true that writing is a solitary occupation, b...
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a chi...
View your burden as a gift. It’s the theme that ha...
Food Love Poison
Because art does for me what religion does-- it or...
Bill T. Jones
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Because society and people are our meat, one reall...
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It is June. I am tired of being brave.
agitated happiness
locked garden
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tiny black symbols
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rest, ice, compression, and elevation or motion is...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
―
Tim O'Brien
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