15 hours ago by scadventuregal

… that remembers her ex-boyfriend’s brother’s favorite shampoo from the last time he visited and makes sure it’s in the shower. … that is observant to a fault. I will judge you to make sure you won’t hurt me before I open up to you. My gut is rarely wrong, and I’ve come to trust it, although it can ...

Life Lessons from the 831 - scadventuregal.wordpress.com · 1 reference

4 days ago by O. Joy

I am getting close to a new decade – age wise. I am so very grateful to be who I am at this moment. Yes, there are some wrinkles. Like Maggie, I am not the high energy, constantly on the go girl I used to be. But I am content with & confident in my skin – something I wasn’t in my 20’s. I am looking ...

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7 days ago by Janet Grace Riehl

The ides that our sense of self, which we usually assume to be relatively stable and enduring, is actually constructed anew each moment out of a ceaseless flux of thoughts images and sensations may be an interesting concept when we read about it, but when seen directly in meditation it becomes unden ...

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8 days ago by whatthefluff

Thursday is Vault Day! The following was written circa Fall of 2006 in my sophomore year workshop — Writing Nonfiction 1. We were given only a prompt to write about a body part. —— Faces You will never see your own face. It’s a strange statement, but a true one nonetheless. Your face differs from yo ...

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11 days ago by Miss Barbie

Sunday evening I joined my friends for karaoke in our regular haunt, Coyote Cafe. As always, Miss Barbie performed. Uncharacteristically, I was off key, so I left slightly earlier than usual, to walk the few hundred meters that separate the club from my home. I was wearing short shorts, on top of du ...

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12 days ago by Jim Hessler

By Jim Hessler If you have a close friend, relative, or associate approaching retirement age, you might envy them. A life free of daily work responsibilities has its charm. Living off one’s prior labors, traveling, golfing, working in the garden — these are options many of us crave as we stress abou ...

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13 days ago by LindaKimura

What do Dr. Bruce Perry and his colleagues say about play? “Play and exploration are crucial activities for young children. They help the child’s brain develop in optimal ways. Child sensitive spaces, semi-structured activities and opportunities for exploration are safe, nurturing and enriched in de ...

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17 days ago by michael sean symonds

How do you define yourself? I think this has to be one of the most powerful questions we could ask ourselves to find out where you are “standing” in the moment. How you defined yourself when you were ten years old is very different than how you may define yourself in this present moment now; likewis ...

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18 days ago by Michael Kwan

Whether you participate in a competitive sports league or you’re looking to move ahead in your career, finding a never-ending supply of motivation can be the difference between monumental success and monumental failure. Finding this motivation inside of yourself can be difficult, so sometimes we tur ...

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18 days ago by Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D.

Whether we sit alone or sit together, we sit in the ba. “Ba” is Japanese for a circumstance of a shared space: “what I feel now is not in me, but in the ba” (1). Life is movement. There is no movement without friction. This friction you feel when you sit (meditatively) alone is the feel of the inter ...

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