Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ~ St. Francis de Sales For more than a year we’ve […]
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Outside the Zone
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone. ~ John Maxwell Comfort zone, comfort foods, favorite shoes, old baggy shirt, comfortable silence, a comfortable living, words of comfort. Sometimes it’s all too close for comfort. […]
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anticipation fine-tuned by fear addressed loose ends grabbed at flailing arms meet ideas a mid-air Möbius strip never-ending dance returns to beginning yet different but not joyous pirouette cavorts romping cowboy line dance early Texas twist in plan as pieces […]
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What have you got I need? I see this old book – copyright 1939? Such arcane language, “the goose hung high”? Still, I see myself, my problems in the dated, sexist text. This old God? No, don’t think so. I […]
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Noteworthy, worth re-marking, meriting recalling… a remarkable day, not one mired in quotidian details. What makes a day extraordinary, prevents humdrum, dreary? Does uneventful mean monotonous? (Is monotonous named for the o’s?) Can a day spent in your head, even […]
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