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Read more: Love what is hereKate Bowler, the writer, advise us to forget “what could have been.” “Blessed are you who are attempting to love what is here, what is…
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Read more: A simple universe?“We yearn for the universe to be simple, to be one thing or another,” writes Lauren LeBlanc in The Boston Globe. “But it’s not. Its…
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Read more: Be positive!?Test negative. Be positive. I had my patience tested. I’m negative. I heard both of these lines during a Zoom meeting recently. Since then, I’m…
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Read more: Comic and upliftingLife is “by turns crushing and restorative, busy and boring, comic and uplifting,” writes Kathryn Schulz, author of Lost & Found: A Memoir.
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Read more: Look at yourselfLucy learns new things about herself in Elizabeth Strout’s book Oh, William!. In an NPR interview, Strout comments: “You always think the other person’s not…
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Read more: Endless pools of unknowabilityIn her book Oh, William!, Elizabeth Strout writes about William and Lucy, who used to be married to each other. An NPR interviewer commented, “Lucy…
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Read more: We are mysteriesIn her book Oh, William!, Elizabeth Strout writes about William and Lucy—and about knowing and not knowing—other people and ourselves, too. At the end of…
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Read more: Practice perseveranceThere’s a pandemic, of course. And, I’m tired of it, of course. But, no matter, I plan to keep moving forward as much as possible.…
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Read more: Chaos or community?“Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?” Martin Luther King once said. “Is this the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of…
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Read more: Think outside your wallsI am writing letters for Beto, talking to friends on the phone and smiling at everyone I meet when I take my morning walk. I…