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Thanks for reading. Share this if you want to. The other day I remembered an ancient Egyptian proverb I once read somewhere. “We all die twice. First…
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He wears the same outfit every time. Light blue t-shirt. Grey shorts. Light blue Nike runners. Ankle socks. His clothes are tight-fitting. His chest and…
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She told me she spent the day walking along a river while listening to an Eckhart Tolle audio book. “The Power of Now?” I asked. “No, the other one…
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Sam and Anna meet on the sidewalk in front of their apartment building. Sam is coming home. Anna is on the way out. It's strange because over breakfast…
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I’m sorry but I’m going to write about my cat again. Last time I concluded that if I could just improve myself, become a more generous interpreter of…
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“We need some more bread,” the man at the pasta shop shouted at his wife. They sell many varieties of fresh pasta throughout the week, and on Thursdays…
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In the news agency at the airport there was a makeshift bookshelf. It was made from red cardboard. On each row sat a white, hardcover book. On the front…
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At two o’clock on a hot day I was standing on Smith Street trying to decide what to have for lunch, or rather standing on the corner of Smith Street and…
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The beaches I enjoy most are city beaches. Where you can run your hands through the sand and pull out a chip packet. Or you are wading waste deep in the…
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The morning Novak Djokovic was expelled from Australia we ran out of toilet paper at the studio where I work. I walked to the supermarket to buy some…
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When my cat was a kitten, I wiggled my fingers as if they were little creatures and he’d pounce at them. He is the first cat I’ve owned and I didn’t…
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Some of the best writing advice I ever received was from Kevin Killian. It was 2012. A friend and I were traveling in a car from California to New York…
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