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May.02.2013
"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.” Mae West
From the time we are born until we take our last breath humans desire to be noticed and affirmed by others. As infants we crave and...
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Jun.26.2012
Having breakfast with the old timer before he and I went to work on his chimney, George asked if I wanted anything to eat.
"No," I said casually. "I ate on the way here, but thank you."
As I sat there waiting for him to finish his...
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Feb.10.2011
Today I composed a challenge, and I hope you'll accept it. It's a challenge to find, nay to CHOOSE, joy each and every day. In 2011 I'm determined to change my perceptions, and to make life better for myself and my family, one small choice at a time. And I'm going to share it with whomever is...
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Jan.09.2010
The following is an excerpt from a letter written by a Federal penitentiary inmate to his son. It is interesting to me, not only intrinsically for the point of view expressed, but also because the author was a man whose name was emblematic of treachery and iniquity. One does not expect...
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Dec.31.2009
Happiness is like an unending boxing match with everybody weighing in on the subject, taking shots, then rolling with the punches while trying to get a knockout. The world is our ring, and society is the coach and referee, guiding, gauging, ruling and regulating the fight. The opening bell rang...
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Mar.29.2009
It became obvious to me that this strange neurological disorder that had scrambled my brain yesterday is continuing to takes its toll. The man next to me was talking quite loudly on his phone. From the loud laughter it sounded like he was enjoying the conversation with whomever he was talking to...
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Jan.21.2009
When I was watching president Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, in the back of my head another film was running – actually I was not watching a film but I was looking like a film editor at some footage that I had collected over the years of my life - at many little fragments of films in which...
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