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Why I Failed to Notice that I’m Happy
Why I Failed to Notice that I’m Happy Lately, I’ve been passing through what a friend called “a perfect storm” of setbacks. When they mount to a certain number, you can’t tell what’s big and what’s little. Anyway, they came … Continue reading
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New Year Retrospective
New Year Retrospective I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. If they had any force for me, I might. First, you gotta believe in those things. But I do find living force in going back over the path recently trodden, to … Continue reading
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