Tag: things
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November 21, 2017
Every night before I go to sleep, I try to think of three small things I am grateful for. Not big things. Small things. Last night, the list of three went like this: 1. A super ball (with a smiling monster inside of it) that I found in an alley. Someone had taken a big…
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July 21, 2015
I’ve got seashells all over the house—on windowsills and ledges, on tables and in bowls. They are there because I can never quite get over their beauty and because they remind me of where I am from (Florida). My mother was the one who taught me, a long, long time ago, how to look for…
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July 18, 2013
We are now more than halfway through the year. I keep thinking that I am going to get my stuff in order. I keep thinking that I am going to understand things. Order and understanding, however, have been elusive. Still, I keep trying. On Saturday night, I walked out of a friend’s house and looked…
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November 21, 2012
What I have learned about thankfulness: the smaller, the more particular, the more ordinary, the better. For example: the light coming in a west-facing window at three in the afternoon, the old man’s hands on the newspaper, the gleam of a crow’s feather, the dog asleep, all four paws in the air. More: the berries…