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Explorations in, “What does it mean to me to live a life of significance?”

What I Wouldn’t Give

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

From “Letters to Jaden” Sometimes I get impatient when after your daily bath You get playful and cheeky as I am dressing you As your knees wobble while I pull pants on you You keep putting your head on my shoulder Then you’d hop on with both of your legs Clasping me like a monkey [...]

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What I Would Give

Monday, October 25, 2010

Originally titled, “A Letter for Someone Else” Sometimes I look at you… And I envy how you are able to have all these different things going on… teaching at a university, attending and giving lectures, going to school, writing books and working on even more books, giving talks, blogging, etc etc… You seem so full [...]

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It Was Never the Destination

Friday, October 1, 2010

It is still very hard, but I am learning that the goal is the journey itself. The destination is really an illusion… there to tempt us into believing that we can brave through the journey because the destination would be worth it, when in fact it was never the allure of the destination that carried [...]

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I’d Still Want to Know

Friday, September 10, 2010

Last night we watched Charly – an old movie based on the story Flowers for Algernon. Charly was a severely regarded man with a happy disposition who calls coworkers who make fun of him his “best friends” and goes about his life with a childlike innocence, impervious to the cruelty of others. He had an [...]

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This I Wish For You

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

I want to write a book for you, Jaden. Because you and I may be so alike, I feel like I need to write a guide for you, to help you through those times when you may not want to speak with me or maybe I am no longer there. I would like to write [...]

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