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What Hope Feels Like

Saturday, January 14, 2012

When you stop holding your breath and Start believing there will still be air When you stop living for 5 minutes hence and Start believing in good months ahead When you stop forcing your smiles and Start relaxing lines between your brows When you stop fearing mortality and Start trusting your beloved will be all [...]

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Enough

Thursday, January 5, 2012

I did not to make a list of goals this year. For the past decade, every new year on my birthday I have drawn up a litany of major goals that I should accomplish. Historically these goals were my guiding missiles toward “success.” I defined “Success” as an appropriate (to my expectations) increase in financial [...]

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The Battles Worth Picking and Fighting For

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

You’ve heard the saying, “Pick your battles.” Most of the time you hear this as a warning for a battle you probably “shouldn’t” pick. What about the battles worth fighting for? The battles worth picking for me may be distilled into this statement by Dr. Seuss or Bernard Baruch (I am not sure of the [...]

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Reincarnation through Family

Monday, December 19, 2011

I wasn’t sure that I wanted to start a family. I did not view myself as someone who had a maternal instinct. I did not exude maternal confidence (whatever that means, or looks like.) I ran in the other direction of babies (I still do… and I’m a mom! This may mean I should never [...]

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Indemnitas

Thursday, December 8, 2011

We are rewriting Fables. The hare beats the tortoise and wins the race. The farmer who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs gets rich by selling future options against golden eggs in the commodity market. We can outsource the mining of ores of our experience and pre-load Fast-Pass tickets with academic degrees. Getting [...]

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