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While I Still Have Time
For most of my life, I’ve had a feeling that I’d die young. Many writers have done so for various reasons. I think there’s a definite connection between writing and instability. Those who have good things to say see things … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Communication, Humanitarian Things
Tagged death, ideas, life, sharing, sharing ideas, sharing my ideas, time, While I Still Have Time, writing
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A Profound Shift
I had a major breakthrough last Thursday. It all started with a song I’d heard many years ago on The Brady Bunch called “Til I Met You”. I found the song last week on YouTube and listened to it a … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Til I Met You", A Profound Shift, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, The Brady Bunch
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Opposites
Something I’ve learned from Taoism is that seemingly opposing concepts or forces are actually two halves of the whole. Without day, there’d be no night. Without the back side of a coin, there’d be no front side. As I progress … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged inner work, leisure, leisurely productive, opposites, rest, Taoism
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Review of Stranger Than Fiction
Late last year, I watched Stranger Than Fiction. I enjoyed it immensely and found myself thinking long and hard about a number of things afterward, so I thought it deserves a review. Spoilers abound so check out the movie before … Continue reading
Posted in Great Movies
Tagged death, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, life, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Review of Stranger Than Fiction, Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrell
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Gentle Lessons
Every so often, I get opportunities to dig deep and work on things within myself without too much pain. I call these opportunities “gentle lessons”. Here are a few relatively recent examples. The first example concerns my dog, Sawyer. He … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged dog, dogs, emotions, Gentle Lessons, growth, healing, inner work, lessons, pain, personal growth, Sawyer
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Welcome the Mess
I started cleaning and organizing a few rooms at home toward the end of last year. I knew from past experience that I’d completely fail if I tried to get it all done quickly so I decided to work a … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged cleaning, healing, messes, organization, Welcome the Mess
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Avoiding Disaster on the Way to Utopia
I often see people use the word “utopia” to describe what they consider to be an unrealistic or extremely unlikely society. In conversations about how the world could be, once someone characterizes another’s viewpoint as utopian, the exchange usually devolves … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things
Tagged Avoiding Disaster on the Way to Utopia, communities, community, decisions, healing, incentives, modern society, peace, society, utopia
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Choose Your Role Models Wisely
Be careful when you look to someone for guidance on living your life. Lots of people think they know how life works and how you can live most effectively but plenty of them are struggling hard behind the scenes. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Choose Your Role Models Wisely, emotions, negativity, perception, positivity, role models
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A Wave of Nostalgia
Sometime within the past few weeks, I listened to a cover of “Green Tambourine” from Recess: School’s Out. It immediately took me back to when I first watched that movie in elementary school. I think I saw it during summer … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Movies, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged A Wave of Nostalgia, friends, friendship, Green Tambourine, inner work, memories, nostalgia, pain, personal growth, school, youth
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A Sobering Perspective
We’re all going to die someday. Even if advances in technology and medicine help us live much longer than we currently can, eventually either time will catch up with us or we’ll decide that we’ve had enough. Death is the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Sobering Perspective, death, life, opportunity, overview effect, perspective, Zoom Out
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