Tag: life lessons
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Relearning to Start
The first step is always difficult. Even when confidence is high, the beginning of any new journey is wrought with the factors of the unknown. We know little of how well we are going to be, of what the steps on the path will bring to us as we move forward. Around each bend resides…
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Learning Something On 30+ Years Of (Trying to Be)ing A Writer
My intention is cathartic. Write a long essay or blog post centered on what I’ve learned about writing and my relationship with it and relay the path forward I chose based on those lessons. It’s to review my thinking and process it one last time for this site. And given the impending doom (he says…
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Lost Gratitude
Thanksgiving is here. Yet, given the decor, the music, the gleeful discussion, one could question if there even was a holiday between Halloween and Christmas. Few don’t notice Christmas decorations and merchandise begin invading store shelves before Halloween even comes. There was a time in my brief life thus far where November had very little…
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Balance
All in? All out? Full speed or full stop? It seems difficult to decide between the two options, as though there is only two options. My writing life has been one extreme or the other, like trying to drive a car through a crowded city with only two options: slamming one’s foot onto the gas…
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Barriers
We are our own barriers. Even the barriers in the way, we obsess over them. We choose to see them as such, allowing them to block us, to keep us from moving forward. Yes, they prevent us from one thing or another, but it is we who choose to let it stop us in our…
Jeremy C Kester 