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Hawaii
Walking feels wonderful on the knee. Oh how satisfying it is to have back my full range of motion. Walking along streets and pathways around school or home is a pure meditation. Walking from the bus stop to home gives satisfaction I can scarecely verbalize, let alone write down. Inflammation has been reduced, though traces [...]
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Their Hypocricy… Almost all parents are hypocrites. If you happen to have gotten two people who are completely in touch with themselves, then you should stop reading this and spend time with them while you can. For the rest of us, hypocrisy is likely to have been a theme since you could understand words. Dad says “Don’t drink” [...]
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Dear Post-Surgical Self… How does it feel to have two working knees!? I admit, that feeling is foreign to me now as I have forgotten the way it feels not to have to monitor the impact of every step. I have forgotten the feeling of the freedom to walk miles and miles with the fantastic [...]
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At the heart of nearly every parent’s actions, both negative and positive, is an overriding conviction that it is their responsibility to make sure you grow up to be exactly as they picture a perfect member of their society. In different cultures, this can mean drastically different things. In different social classes, the ideas which are passed down [...]
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There is a single word to classify each one of my memories of life. The word encompasses, with humility, all that drives us for more. All that drives us to ascend our darker moments and surpass our social rank. The dream that, if translated into chemical form would refine to pure adrenaline. The word is [...]
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We all have taken a test, read a book, or spoken with a psychologist or councilor who has told us we learn with a dominant sense. We are, the experts claim, predisposed by nature (and nurture) to one of three learning styles: auditory, visual, or kinesthetic. If we are most receptive to sound and speech [...]
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I have recently discovered the unparalleled joys of polishing shoes. The grandeur and intrinsic workman feel of the motions of working the polish onto a shoe with a brush is such a wonderful thing to do. Telling stories (or listening to stories for that matter) while polishing shoes seems to go together as well as [...]
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You may have heard of some of these. I happened to be in charge of getting Christmas music this year, and true to form, I didn’t want to just get “average” or traditional music. I wanted an eclectic, mind-expanding Christmas playlist Here are the ten coolest and most obscure songs I managed to get my [...]
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This morning I sent Julie this email: Julie… First, I want to say that I love you. I love you as a person, I love you as a friend. I love who you are, your values, your beauty. I love nearly every part of you. What I don’t love, is what our relationship has become. [...]
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