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The summer smells good
The intoxicating smell of comfortable warmth and movement and change. Of sun rays beating down, of future acts, exciting unknowns, shirtless, of liberation from consumption by creation. It smelled of...
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Let go of what you think you need
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” -Thoreau Most of my life, I didn’t have a problem with building...
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You are the leader you’ve been looking for
Leaders don’t check their culture for approval. They have the awareness of what’s going on to determine the right direction and start a movement towards it. It’s lonely, but it begins with a trust in...
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How to make your vote count
Many feel that money influences our representatives. Many believe that elections are decided by money rather than votes. I think this is correct, but only in so much as we believe that is true and...
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Your strength is needed. Now…more than ever.
Some people think they know better than others. You know the type. They give advice on everything. They believe they have the system of do’s and don’ts that will work. They want what is best for you....
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Please don’t throw your vote away
Will you be voting based on the ideology of your representatives and their Party, or the results of their actions in office? What can be improved? What’s the biggest issue that is driving your vote?
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What did you learn from this election?
This election season has taught me a lot. It has made me see the ideology that can take over reason. It has shown me the emotion that can drive us to our beliefs, or help drive us apart, and give...
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How to be a superhero
I just saw the movie, The Avengers. It was a disappointment to me, but this scene was so different from the rest of the movie. Really, I felt it to be the best part. It delved into defining humanity…a...
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How love turns to dependence
I’ve been reading the non-fictional works of Steven Pressfield. He writes about Resistance (no typo there. He takes Resistance seriously) preventing you from pulling the trigger on creative endeavors,...
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You choose your friends. They don’t choose you.
One can sink you. Another can keep you anchored in place, and still another can keep you safely near the shore. The last one will fill your sails to send you to new places. Each kind of person is out...
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Yeast makes bread, beer, and men
(Pin it here to read later) The boy at the sales counter picked up the can. “What’s this?” he asked his father. “It’s to grow yeast,” his father said, as he paid for his things. “Yee-ust?” the boy...
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How to become more powerful than 99% of the population starting today
“Simple kindness to one’s self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all. It produces no backlash, has no downside, and never leads to loss or despair. It increases one’s...
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It’s only after we’ve lost everything
Lose the egos. Stop the fighting, the static, the taking. Everyone had the privilege of being born out of the nothingness of the universe and is damn lucky for that. Having the confidence to...
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We can do better, if we choose the people who will do better by us.
“States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.” Why are we voting for leaders who are career politicians? Why are we voting for leaders who want to rule...
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The day you actually changed
(30 seconds to read) “Everyone is crippled in some area, and everyone is somewhere on the path of evolution, some ahead of us and some behind. In the steps we have walked are the old lessons of life,...
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How to make change real.
We voted for change with a young, idealistic black man with our current president. Today, we look to an old, critical white man for the same change. The most meaningful change to strive for is in our...
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Our children will be taught
Our children will be taught what their parents, or parent, teaches them. Our children will be taught what their community, and society, teaches them. It can be a lesson that they are poor, so it...
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You help create the environment that you live in
“We have no reason to distrust our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors. If it has an abyss, it is ours. If dangers are there, we must try to love them. And if we...
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One life. No re-do’s.
Risk yourself a little every day or die a little every day. Making excuses is the opposite of taking risks. It’s doing nothing at all.
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The stream has become a river
and the river an ocean, the currents and tides more powerful than me. “We are in the midst of a momentous event in the evolution of human consciousness, but they won’t be talking about it in the news...
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