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Gratitude

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward
It’s easy to get stuck feeling wretched about things you don’t have. It’s even easier to take things you do have for granted. So I’ll try to do a gratitude exercise here, out loud, to get things flowing again.
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Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Kimberly Johnson
Apologies and excuses
A few days back, I and my fiancé had a conversation where I said something abrupt. He was offended, but I felt I had not been out of line, because, you know, something and something else. I forget the exact phrasing, but the bottom line was [...]

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Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.
John Morley
On the other day, I was having a conversation, and the other participant was talking about a person they know who is quite short: “I could start calling him big guy. You know, so that someone would.”
I really didn’t like that idea, and I [...]

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The usual error is assuming people are just like you.
Pace and Kyeli, The Usual Error, Chapter I
This is my first ever book review. The brilliant Pace and Kyeli were awesome enough to give me a copy of the book to read and review, and I’ll do my very best to give them open and honest [...]

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Ovid
So my hard drive called it quits on Saturday. My darling tech-savvy fiancé did everything he could, but unfortunately the data is apparently beyond restoration, at least in any DIY manner. My last [...]

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