Tag: life lessons
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Finding Zen
I love comics. I read a few regularly. Some I don’t read as they are release, rather waiting to consume them in large quantities. Some are classics; some are newer, hipper webcomics. They range from family friendly to downright dirty. There is one in particular that I always want to point people to. It’s one…
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Positive
I’ve been working on telling my son this: positive thoughts will bring positive results. I believe my wife was the one that said it in those words, but the lesson is the same. We all can run towards negative thoughts. It’s easy. Criticism is easy. Doubt is easy. Turning towards fear and anger is easy.…
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Cluttered Mind
It took me two weeks to start writing a poem. There it was, sitting in my brain taking up valuable space. I wasn’t writing it down. Even having notebooks and cell phones available when there wasn’t a computer even, I, for some reason, chose to hold onto it. Kept it hovering in my thoughts as…
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And the days fly by…
It’s October already. It shouldn’t be a surprise, but even though I knew it was coming, when I awoke this morning, I felt surprised. Is it really October already? Of course it is. As I get older, those bits of wisdom that are dispensed by my parents become more poignant. I learn that they were…
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Borrowed Time
Given the events of the last week, expect a few more posts of life and what it means to be alive. It’s the way I will be coping. As from my prior post, my father fell deathly ill while my family and I were visiting them in Philly. This extended what was supposed to be…