Lossent Blog

  • Doubt

    Exhausted and energized.  Medicated and caffeinated.  ~ Direction unknown, there’s not much doing.  The next right step is perpetually brewing. Two separate paths both mean so much to me;  I’d take the one for you, the other for we.  ~ Show up daily, do good work, get a weekly check; that’s how I was taught. 

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  • Okay

    I thought I had to figure it all out myself first before letting other lossents know it’s okay to flounder and feel lost until you find the new ‘you’ after losing a child. (Or after losing a spouse or a house or a person, pet or plant.) It’s taken a few decades for me to

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  • Moving

    Moving is widely ranked as one of life’s heaviest stressors, bringing with it a grueling mix of physical exhaustion and financial strain. The average American moves about 11 times in a lifetime, averaging a move about once every 5-7 years for most people.  I’ve just completed my 30th move.  <gulp>  It’s a staggering number. The

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  • Confidence

    Do you remember the occasional visiting speaker ‘assemblies’ at elementary school in the 1970’s or 1980’s, into the early 1990’s?  I was fascinated at how these speakers could present information so comfortably, so confidently, and often wondered,’How did they get like that?’ It never occurred to me that it was learned, or a job, or

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