Sometimes life hands you a box of darkness. Here’s something I know to be true: the fastest way for you to find your way back to the light is to look for the gift in that box, even if that gift happens to be the size of a pinprick and heavily camouflaged and takes some …
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“We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.” —Anaïs Nin Write your creed because you will live out what you believe I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again because I promise you that it’s true: you will live out what you believe (both consciously and …
Ever wonder: Just how did you end up where you don’t want to be? How come you keep doing things you tell yourself you don’t want to do? Or always seem to get this close to getting something you desperately want only to make a bad choice that makes everything fall apart? Or work really …
Here is the house. It was once pretty and white. Now the bushes are dead. The roof leaks. The front door hangs crooked. See the bedroom. The wallpaper has gray flowers. It peels away from the wall in strips. The window is broken. There is a dirty mattress on the floor. See Jane. She wears …
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She could never go back Once upon a time, there was a girl who fell in love. She thought he was the one, even though sometimes a little voice inside her told her that there was something not quite right about him. She said yes when he asked her to marry him, not knowing …
So this one goes along with a post I did on things I wish I’d known when I was 20. I’m still learning things. Sadly, I tend to learn things the hard way. So, if I could talk some sense to my current self (maybe this time I’ll listen!), here are some things I’d say: …
“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.” ~ Stephen King There are documented scientific reasons about the importance of reading, according to a seminar I once attended given by a neurologist who had been studying the brain for three …
