photo taken in Long Island, New York
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Now and then we need to just be happy
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Be calm and persevere
I have this meditating frog statue in the front yard who inspires me more than a little frog should. We just had a spring snowstorm here in Denver, and it always warms my heart how …
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Seneca quote on knowledge
As a child I was teased occasionally about how much I read. In my adult life no one teases me about my reading because of how often my “useless” knowledge learned from books comes in …
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Michael Scofield on taking a leap of faith
I’m a non-fiction junkie when it comes to any television I watch, but I make an exception for the Best Worst Soap Opera on TV, Prison Break. So much pathos, people coming back from the …
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Bill Moyers on creativity
Former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers was a University of Texas at Austin student who wrote for the The Daily Texan there and went on to write fantastic books and host great programming, including the …
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Arthur Miller Quote
As a kid obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller first got my attention as her serious looking NYC playwright husband. Later in school he came up again when we read The Crucible, where I learned that …
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Jack Kerouac Quote
I could probably write an entire blog with Jack Kerouac quotes alone. He taught me about freedom, Buddhism, Dylan Thomas but most of all showed me that I wasn’t the first human to have mental torment …
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Jean-Paul Sartre
As a senior in high school, I was chosen to direct a one-act play. Being the troubled introvert I am, I chose Jean-Paul Sartre‘s No Exit; a play about three people locked in a room …
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Ever since finishing For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich, I’ve been thinking deeply about women and their role as healers and how society can get back some of that. The book goes over 200 …
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David Byrne
David Byrne is the Downtown World Art-Pop Punk Aesthete that I’ve always wished I could be, and his book How Music Works is a gift to fans curious to know how his brain works. Music …
