Category: advice
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The comfort of friends
I’m feeling anxious. We’re getting ready to move everything out of our house—including the two of us and our dog Jack. Yikes! It’s necessary because our house needs extensive foundation repairs—and we’ve decided to go ahead and do major remodeling, too. The project will take six or seven months. Because of my anxiety, my counselor…
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No secrets
In the book Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, William is hospitalized after he tries to commit suicide. His psychiatrist tells him that his mantra must be: “No bullshit. No secrets.” That’s good advice for all of us.
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Cease being afraid
I am cleaning! Throwing away papers. But, I found this quote that’s worth keeping—and repeating. “I would like…to see us take hold of ourselves, look at ourselves and cease being afraid,” Eleanor Roosevelt once said. –Joy
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Allow all ideas
“If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own,” the author Kurt Vonnegut once said.
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What you pretend
“We are what we pretend to be,” the author Kurt Vonnegut once said. “So, we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
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When should you be angry?
I mentioned that I’m angry and distraught that we have to make major repairs to our home’s foundation and plumbing. The news was shocking, but I am absorbing it—and remembering something my mother said often. “You can tell the size of a person by what makes that person angry.” Yes, the news was terrible. But,…
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Throw away your anger
I am angry and distraught that our house needs extensive foundation and plumbing repairs. Yikes! That’s why something I read in the April 26, 2024 issue of The Week was helpful. Write down your angry feelings and then immediately throw the paper away. You’ll feel much better, a Japanese study reports. –Joy
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Keep reading
Yikes! I am getting rid of books. Because I have too many books. Still, it’s difficult. And, of course, I’ll keep reading—and buying more books. As Dr. Seus says, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” –Joy
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To make sense of the world
“The interconnectedness of the seemingly unrelated is how we make sense of the world,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.
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To find meaning
“It’s an absurd thing—life, we try to find meaning,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.