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Who We Need To Be
“Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you wanted to be.” — Laurie Frankel Making yourself up can sometimes be a coping mechanism. We are often told to just be ourselves, as though that should be enough to get us through whatever life has in store.…
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The Miracle of an Ordinary Afternoon
“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand; life itself is the miracle of miracles.” — George Bernard Shaw I was on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, attending a business meeting. We had flown into San Juan before transferring to small, six-seater planes for the short flight to the island. It was an adventure in itself, flying in such a small aircraft, with the Caribbean stretching out below us. We were…
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Uncomplicated, More Time to Notice
Ignacio L. Vallarta, Miguel Miramontes Carmona, Puerto Vallarto I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet simple things that remind me that life doesn’t have to be complicated to be beautiful. Brooke Hampton This photo was taken on a walk near the shore…
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What Autumn Knows
A Walk in the Woods “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald I’m anticipating cooler weather later this week. I believe fall is in the air. Autumn is never a sure thing in Colorado. Some years it seems we go directly from summer to winter, and…
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A Different Person Then
The Bird Girl, Sylvia Shaw Judson, Savannah, Georgia “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Weren’t we all different people then? We are the sum total of what we’ve experienced through the years. If I think back forty years, or even twenty, I’m…
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