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Daily Prompt
Big events over the past year, huh? Well, Boy #3 had his first band concert playing trumpet about a year ago. Then he won second place for mental math category for his grade at the math-olympics. He had a great school year last year and this one has started out amazing too. Boy#2 had a…
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Seekers
I listen to Glennon Doyle’s and Abby Wambach’s podcast sometimes. I happened to listen to it today and yesterday. Or was it two days ago…it doesn’t matter. Both days were an interview with Sarah Edmondson, former member of NXIVM, who escaped and helps out other people escaping cults and religious groups. Now I love learning…
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Daily Prompt
I have decided to work with the daily prompt. I happened to pay more attention to my dashboard today and I could hide it, but I think I might just answer it daily and write another post before/after. Do I see wild animals is today’s prompt. Yes. I see birds and squirrels daily, and sometimes…
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Intelligence
(Today I am ignoring the prompt that asked me about my favorite place to visit. I refuse to be derailed by WP’s writing prompt right now, but maybe I will answer that later.) So my question is when did when did critical thinking become a liability? Why is intelligence looked down upon in some circles?…
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Five things…
As I started to write today, I noticed that the screen said “Share five things you are good at.” So now we get writing prompts? That’s sort of interesting to me but at the same time, it completed distracted me from what I was actually was going to write. Will it be something different every…
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Letting go of what never was
As I continue to think about my recent discovery about food being a positive connection to my father, I move forward. I am now in a place where I can see several things that I didn’t realize as a child or even as a younger adult. All of these realizations have been swirling around me…
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I got my eye on you…
Today I met the fiance of one of my wife’s coworkers. I don’t like him. He’s 24 and he takes up space. He’s tall, and he just spreads out everywhere. But that’s just part of the problem. The main problem is the way he talks to his wife to be and also the way he…
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Two halves make a hole
I am learning to live as one whole person. I have been living my life as two halves-one is the outward part of me most people know and see. The quiet, kind, caring person who goes out of their way to help everyone. The person who doesn’t seem to have much personality and just kind…
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sitting in my shame
Yesterday I had to do a VA exam for part of the claim that was initially deferred. But because I’ve already got 100%, these exams don’t even matter. I can’t get any more money at this point unless I lose a limb. But I still feel like I should finish all of these open exams…
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definitions
How does a dream start? Where does a dream come from? How do you figure out what your dream is (or dreams are)? How do you know what you are meant to do in life? We are defined by our jobs and our families and sometimes what we believe in, but what really are those…