Category: Grief
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Compassion
Compassion: sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it. Merriam-Webster, Inc.’s 2025 online dictionary I was once told by an elementary school English teacher to never continue reading if I didn’t know the meaning of one word–get a dictionary, find the word, spell it, pronounce it, learn the word, review it… Read more
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Raining
We are having the first rain in over 200 days in Las Vegas–with light but steady drops falling for the past hour, unlike the hot and heavy downpours in Tallahassee every 20 minutes–yet there is still a cleansing happening here. Sitting on the covered porch swing this morning, enjoying nature’s show, I was struck by… Read more
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Blogging
Have you ever told yourself you’d do something that felt really big and important, but the thought of doing it also felt overwhelming and scary, so then you got busy avoiding it…maybe even putting it off for years? I do that with public writing, posting, blogging, submitting, publishing. Do you notice, though, that when you… Read more