You will never be happy in life if you live someone else’s idea of what life should be. ~ Robert Stack I have tried to live other lives, to be who my parents wished me to be — though it […]
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“Live long and prosper,” the Vulcan greeting. “Live and be prosperous: and farewell good fellow,” from Romeo and Juliet… Are they commands, flourish, achieve success? Or is there an implied statement of desire, of hope? Can we choose to live […]
Continue reading »But the Boat Kept Rocking
But the boat kept rocking. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Location 2955) We have no right to believe we’re owed smooth crossings, that waves won’t rock our journey, that winds won’t blow in gales. We have only a sure tiller and […]
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I failed to write last night, absorbed in The Silent Girl. I woke, thinking of the girl — well, the small woman — an author who spoke of her first million-dollar advance recalling her interest in Texas, her studying frontier […]
Continue reading »Half-Afraid of the Remedy
And as I look back on the events of two months, I can clearly see that I had been circling around, half-afraid of encountering the remedy for my situation, half-wanting it, deferring fulfillment of my promise to get in touch […]
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