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Live Better

“When we’re with people who bring out our essential selves, our words flow effortlessly, the energy is positive, we tell funny jokes, people laugh. There’s a sense of complete understanding that comes from being on the same wavelength with two essential selves.” –Martha Beck

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It occurred to me this morning as I waited for the kettle to boil, that my life here is much smaller, or perhaps, narrower, than the one I had in Los Angeles. But I mean this as a compliment. Here, I more often know the sources of the objects I interact with, the things I [...]

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“As a writer, I have to believe in invisible things.” –Roger Rosenblatt, being interviewed on NPR about his memoir, Making Toast, which I now must read, just because its writer had the genius to say those ten words.

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“Life expands or contracts in proportion to one’s courage” ~ Anaïs Nin
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus
What is it in the universe that’s sending so many words of wisdom my way lately?
Maybe I’m just paying attention. It’s a good time to be [...]

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