How to Change Direction When Life Goes Sideways
I’m currently watching the Harry Potter movies for the first time. I just finished the second one, and at the end, Professor Dumbledore tells Harry: It’s not…
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If We All Wore Our Sins on Our Shirts
About six months ago I rewatched The Scarlet Letter. The Demi Moore one. And even as I was sitting there, halfway paying attention and halfway judging the costumes,…
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Why So Many of Us Feel Like We’re Performing Instead of Living
Some days I catch myself moving through the hours like I’m in somebody else’s body. Sort of like I’m borrowing a life because I misplaced my own;…
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What Life? I Ain’t Got No Life.
I was rewatching The Revenant today, mostly because sometimes you just need a little TOM HARDY. But there was a line I had forgotten about. One of…
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The Woman at the Well (Spoiler Alert; It’s You)
I just realized that I’m the Samaritan woman at the well. Or basically in a similar situation. If we use her as an archetype, her story becomes…
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I Am Changed
I am changed. It’s a very simple statement really, but not at all simplistic. Sometimes when a person becomes too comfortable in what they have and who…
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So, Be a Survivor
What happens when life kicks you so hard that you’re not sure if you can get back up? I remember seeing something years ago; one of those…
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The Pit of Despair (And Why We Need to Stop Digging)
You know that feeling when you’ve tried so many times to fix something that you just… stop trying? When the effort itself feels pointless because nothing ever…
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Remember When?
Remember when neighbors used to borrow cups of sugar? Not just when they were desperately out, but because borrowing and lending was just what people did. It…
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It Made a Difference to That One
I once heard a story about a man walking along the beach after a storm. The sand was littered with starfish, thousands of them, washed up and…