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filling the space

This past Sunday I organized the shoes on my closet floor. The pile looked like a footwear orgy for the homeless. Shoes tossed upside down…

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while I was traveling you were scoring goals

In my mind I can see her clearly. The ball bobbing along the surface of the water right in front of her as she rushes…

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awakening in the room of “what if?”

I am sitting in the waiting room of the hospital’s CT Scan facility. The furniture is classic office lobby chic. The walls are papered with…

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the sky above, the field below

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -Marcel Proust…

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a man in full

“If the image one holds of one’s self contains elements that don’t square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however…

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a world that can’t stop talking

“We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal–the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha and comfortable in the spotlight…We…

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