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Keep your eyes on the road
Here's a story for you. I like stories on Fridays. Way back when I bought my first car, I purchased an '86 Volkswagon Cabriolet, partly because it was a convertible, but mostly because my big brother had said they were good cars for princesses (and let's face...
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Who do you think you are?
Ah, my survival mechanism's favourite question. I think it's a valid question, since who we are is largely determined by ourselves (our thoughts, our feelings, our judgments, stories and interpretations of, oh, every single little thing we experience). It's...
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What do you really want?
“Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.”~ Epictetus There are a lot of things to be afraid of in this world. Spiders (eight-legged minions of evil, in my humble opinion), fire, sickness, falling through ice and probably about a million more things....
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If I can just …
How long can you hold your breath? That week, I left my job in the public service. I say “job” and not “career” on purpose: I had never planned to embark on a long service career, but even knowing that I’d not been planning to stay didn’t make it any less frightening...
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The big scary
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~ Anaïs Nin I subscribe to a quote-a-day email. A lot of times, I just glimpse it over and delete it (they can’t all be winners, right?). Now and then,...
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