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How many times in what Buddhists call our “precious human existence” have we wondered if we ever should have been born at all? Life- any…
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A perfect loneliness When Agatha’s father died, the world stopped. She and Mutti were now alone. Her father had a big family, but they ignored…
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Bob Clark stepped out of the clothing store on Rose Street in Edinburgh. He was wearing a flowered shirt with very large wide collars. He…
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When it comes down to it, she hasn't kept anything. Not the china or the silverware, not the enormous flat-screen television she never wanted in…
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To be honest, I'd never even heard of the term "social isolation" until this whole virus took hold of all of our lives and everything…
Keep ReadingThere was a time when I was flying on one aircraft or another to some job or other, some family emergency or other, some event…
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I do believe the purest definition of poetry is simply the magnificent way this earth we dwell on presents itself on every single day it…
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Patty felt her obligation was to take care of her parents, John and Masako, when they got into their 90s and couldn't take 100% care…
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Isn’t the wish to have things simple a wish assigned to the old? And is it a wish only about technology? What young person has…
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There was a time when I was flying on one aircraft or another to some job or other, some family emergency or other, some event…
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Does it snow in Brooklyn? Yesterday a friend told me she was thinking about moving to Brooklyn. “Back to Brooklyn,” was the way she put…
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Celia knew she needed sleep, but sleep was the one thing that eluded her night after night after night. Celia simply did not sleep much…
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“All is Compromise, sayeth the preacher.” No—that’s not right. It’s “All is Vanity, sayeth the preacher.” Well, both are true, but only to some extent.…
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He was a man who shone in the perfect light of where he was absolutely meant to be. And in the 2nd Act of BIG…
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“Here is a brighter garden,” Eve said to Adam. She gestured to the vast hills, rolling into the horizon. Adam was moody, feeling she’d been…
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When the gifted and delightful actress Kristen Bell was an undergraduate theater student at New York University, I was one of her fortunate acting teachers.…
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My life was shaped by my love - my need - for this man stand eight feet above the stage, dressed like an ant. .…
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I couldn't do anything. It wasn't anger; it was despair. I'd flown from San Francisco to Honolulu not knowing whether I'd find my son alive,…
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