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The recoverability of life
“I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not...
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The demands of external conformity
“Each of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can’t even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find...
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I-could-have-beens
“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.” ~ Nikki Giovanni
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Meaningful questions
“On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.” ~ Paul Ricoeur
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The conversation
“We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for...
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Friday morning music
When my son, Josh was born in 1974, this song was just released. It has been a constant reminder for me over the last 39 years of how lucky I have been to be able to see him grow up and live his life...
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The Swan
“Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air - An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it...
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Boundaries
“The universe does not revolve around you. The stars and planets spinning through the ballroom of space dance with one another quite outside of your small life. You cannot hold gravity or seasons; even...
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In the Middle
“In the Middle of a life that’s as complicated as everyone else’s, struggling for balance, juggling time. The mantle clock that was my grandfather’s has stopped at 9:20; we haven’t had time to get it...
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Power
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker
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Lucky
Some say you’re lucky If nothing shatters it. But then you wouldn’t Understand poems or songs. You’d never know Beauty comes from loss. It’s deep inside every person: A tear tinier Than a pearl or...
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Ten Years Later
“When the mind is clear and the surface of the now still, now swaying water slaps against the rolling kayak, I find myself near darkness paddling again to Yellow Island. Every spring wildflowers cover...
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Mothers
“Our mother is the sweetest and Most delicate of all. She knows more of paradise Than angels can recall. She’s not only beautiful But passionately young, Playful as a kid, yet wise As one who has lived...
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Nothing twice
“Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. Even if there is no one dumber, if you’re the planet’s biggest...
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