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Read more: What if?What if you had made a different choice? What if you had taken a different path? What if? In a review of the book Home…
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Read more: The heart of empathyWhat is empathy? Christopher Myers, in his introduction for Home Is Not a Country, offers one answer. “It seems to me,” he says, “that this…
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Read more: A home is a thing to be madeWhat is your home? Is it the house where you live? What if you move to a different house? Is your home the people you…
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Read more: Just be “nice”I never have liked the word “nice.” Somehow, it always seems a bit trite, but the word is packed with a lot of information. That’s…
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Read more: Remember kindnessI sometimes have to remind myself that I can be kind to everyone. “Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not,” Henry James…
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Read more: Be a rainbowWe all have had too many cloudy days recently. I have always loved this quote from Maya Angelou, and I am going to take Maya’s…
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Read more: Don’t be yourselfI like this quote—a lot. It comes from “anonymous,” and I don’t remember where I found it. “Don’t be yourself. Be someone nicer.” –Joy
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Read more: Take a tripI’m escaping! I am tired of “vegetating in one little corner of the earth.” I am planning trips again—and I hope the crazy COVID numbers…
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Read more: Keep walking“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it,” Kierkegaard once…
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Read more: Trying to tryIn her new book Good Enough, Kate Bowler writes, “Trying feels harder than it did before.” “We are trying,” she explains. “Well, we are trying…