Category: Ponderings
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We are like the orange…
Sitting outside on an unusually crisp and cool morning with my orange in hand, I begin peeling back the skin and tossing it into my bowl so I can get to the “good part.” A hundred different thoughts about the past and the upcoming week flood my mind. Then I remember that I’m trying to…
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My poppa, the bus driver
“…at his last stop everybody gets off before he drives the bus over the bridge [back into the city] where the bus is parked overnight. As he’s pulling the bus up to the last stop, he tells the people on the bus to give him their problems. He tells them he knows that life is…
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Feel the excitement…
Today could be the day that changes the direction of your life and propels you into your destiny. Or maybe you wake up and it’s just another day. It’s up to you. Life is all about the choices you make. You are not a victim. You, and you alone, determine your destiny. Make today the…
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All is one and one is all is…
Sitting here pondering the interconnectedness of all things in the universe. It’s kind of mind-boggling to think that all is one and one is all is one and one is all is one… you get the drift. I find it easy to connect with nature because it has “weight.” You step outside and you can…
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Hug a stranger
It’s so refreshing to watch little kids play. They say and do exactly what’s in their miniature minds. They hear no and it doesn’t phase them. They move on. Uninhibited. Free. They are able to quickly let go of what didn’t work out and move on to the next adventure. They see someone they don’t…
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Silence and s’mores
Sitting here in silence. Eating a s’more. I’m enjoying solitude more and more every day. Give me a decade, and I might be a monk. You just don’t get moments of silence in our world today. You have to create them. Enjoy them. Treasure them. It’s the perfect opportunity to grow. It’s hard to evolve…
Angel K Will 