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Miraculous Monarchs
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Nature has many marvels. One of the most miraculous is the Monarch butterfly. These creatures, fragile flying origami dipped in orange and black water colors, undertake a massive 2500 mile migration every year, often to the exact Oyamel fir tree in Central Mexico’s Oyamel Forest that they overwintered in the…
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Conflict Resolution : Pushing Through Tempests in Teapots
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Shit happens. People can be obnoxious, obscure, obstreperous, obtuse, oblivious and pretty much any form of obstructionist you can imagine. And at some point, whoever you are, you’re going to find yourself perching awkwardly, and possibly innocently, in the middle of a firestorm of ‘he said, she said, blah blah…
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Being An Expat
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You look back over time with something akin to nostalgia. Walking to the train station, hands plunged deep into pockets of a black winter coat, streetlights blinking through the damp mist. City lights reflected in dark canals. Noise spilling like overflowing Hoegaarden out of smoky pubs, a siren call out…
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Embrace What Is : A Subtle Mindshift
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We are only in charge of our own lives, paths and journeys. Sure shit happens. Life is not always a walk in the park. Indeed it is only really in the struggle and clearing away obstacles that we truly find clarity and growth. The world outside of our inner thoughts,…
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Status Update: So Many People, So Much Despair ……… What to do about it.
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Social media opens all these windows into people’s lives. One sees much more than one would like to, a lot of the time. Young people’s anger and despondency and generally hostility broadcast in disappointed detail for all the world to see. Why? How does it help? Are you looking for…
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Owner Surrenders – A Shelter Animal Article
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16 year old owner surrender. Who does that ? It’s tempting to leave it at that question with all the disdain and judgement it conjures up. In our ‘holier than thou’ minds we see some callous Scrooge like character gather this bundle of tired bones and drop it on the…
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Teach Your Children Well
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Tree frogs start their summer evening songs in the scented boxwoods and lilacs and assorted bee attracting foliage that shade our leisure evening view over the children running and playing on the green fields of their country club bubble. We’re talking about them. As usual. Do moms talk about anything…
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You Suck at Basketball – Kids Say Stuff and How to Counter it.
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Sitting by the pool, a friend and I were watching our boys somersaulting off the diving board when she mentioned – “A friend of Ryan (not his real name) has been telling him: ‘You suck at basketball’ and this has hurt his feelings. I’m not really sure what to…
Essays
A selection of Essays for a time in your life.
I wanted to write “random” before selection.
But as much as I sometimes think we are forging a path through a chaotic allegory,
I do believe in an order to it all. Of our own making.
Simple. Stories we pull into our own life. Stumble upon. Spend a second skimming.
Needed in the moment. Or not. But there nonetheless.
