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What is Real?
What is real? What is of value? What is important? Here is a test. It works every time. It is never wrong. If it can be taken away, it is not real. Anything of value can never be taken from you. Only that which has perceived value can be taken away. Anything that is real…
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Fear and encouragement
My son was three. I took him to a fast-food restaurant in a nearby town to let him play on their indoor playground after we ate. I sat on a bench and watched. He had climbed halfway up a net that led to a circular slide and stopped. He began to cry. I asked him…
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The reinvention of a self
You’ve probably heard that if you dream you’re falling and don’t wake up before you hit bottom, you will die. You may also have heard that life is but a dream. A few years back I found myself free-falling into an abyss. I suppose I haven’t hit bottom yet. I’m still here.
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Be a man boy
Two eight year old boys were chasing each other around the playground. They came around the slide and ran into a four year old boy, knocking him down. The boys stopped, said “sorry,” and continued their play. A visibly muscled man of about thirty picked the boy up, brushed the mulch off him and said,…
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You were never cast out of the garden
We live simultaneously in two worlds, one inner and the other outer. Not one thing will change in the outer world until a change occurs within. As you change within, the world changes around you. You are the change you seek. You never left the Garden. You simply forgot where it was. It is here,…
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Yes you can. No you cannot.
Children growing up in a healthy environment often hear words of encouragement. You can do it. I have faith in you. You can be anything you want in life. Your only limits are those you place upon yourself. At what age does the encouragement cease? Do as you’re told. You’re not paid to think. Shut…
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Caught in the women’s bathroom
It was three in the morning and I had to go, bad, number two. Someone had stuffed rolls of toilet paper in the men’s toilets, the room was flooded. I stood outside the door of the women’s bathroom and listened, then peeked inside. It was empty. The doors hung open on all the stalls. I…