Do you, my dear reader, have a story you can put down?
It’s just a story, after all.
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Green Parrots, Rats, Dogs and Boys
In my neighborhood are a pair of wild, green parrots. If you go for a walk around sunset you can see them flying high overhead, chattering back and forth to each other. They have only visited my yard once, to my knowledge. Shortly after I bought the house, my sister came to help me move.…
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Glowing water
On Friday I got a text from Britta with a genius idea. She proposed we meet at Mission Bay to paddle board in the bioluminescent red tide. She pointed out it would be an appropriate, socially-distanced activity and something that would be freaking amazing. I was completely in and so were three more of our…
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I Just Want to Feel Like My Old Self
My brain wants to tell me that when things go back to normal, then I can be my old self again. But my old self isn’t waiting in the wings. She’s here with me right now.
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Forget Happiness!
Last year I gave up on happiness and decided to start enjoying my life. That’s right–forget happiness! And it’s been good. I found peace in thoughts like, I get to live such a rich life. Rich, alluding to the contrast. And when I stopped trying to run down happiness, I had more space to notice…
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An Open Letter to Dog People
It seems there is an ongoing conversation in our culture about dog people versus cat people, but there is a much more covert group that lives on the fringes of either.
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Colored arrows pointing to black circles
We look at the pet scan which shows a shadowy outline of my body containing the darkened shapes of liver, brain, kidneys, bladder (pee pee is funny :).
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“Embrace the incarnation.”
It was shortly after this I realized that maybe I should just let myself be 36. Maybe I should let myself embrace the incarnation.
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It’s JANUARY!
On Christmas Day in the evening, I was driving R and our new puppy home from a friend’s house. R said, “I really want to stop at the store and get a new car.” “No, we have sooooo many new toys at home! Let’s just go home and play with all of our new…
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The Crocs Miracle: Living with Intention at Disneyland
We did it! Connection and joy. It’s possible, even at Disneyland!
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