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Holy Advice for Sleepy Prayer 💤 (opens the original)
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CHAPTERS I. The Sound of Brotherhood🤝II. Hiking Takes a Tumble 🏔️III. Holy Advice for Sleepy Prayer 🍵IV. Quotes & Mantras to Boost You 🗣️V. Congratulating a Friend 🏆<i
These 3 Words Changed Everything. (opens the original)
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What’s The Word?I struggled to find inspiration for the newsletter this week. I like writing these quotes and mantras to live by, but with this week being one of the busiest of the year, how could I find time for creative flow? I find that creativity comes most naturally when things are slow like molasses, and quiet like a cloud. Luck would have it that silence mostly escaped me this week, until a few moments ago when I sat to write this. “What’s the topic? What’s the quote?”Nothing.Nothing.Then
I’m Writing a Book. (opens the original)
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ChaptersI. DTE’s upcoming hike 🏞️II. Quotes & Mantras to Live ByIII. Sidewalk StoriesOur next hike is September 26th at 9am. Want to RSVP for it? Click here<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BQf0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-me
Brought to you by Whimsy and Spontaneity (opens the original)
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I had an extra ticket to the Yankee game and no one to go with.“You look like you enjoy baseball,” I said to her. “Wanna drop what you’re doing and come to the game with me?” She’s stunned. I gesture toward my watch. “First pitch is in ten minutes.”With her mouth agape, and unsure whether she should gasp or scoff, she just laughs instead. I had the straightest look on my face, because I was dead serious.Perhaps she was laughing because ten seconds earlier I approached her and said, “I’m about to
Needing to Know vs. Not Knowing (opens the original)
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Good morning.Right now, I’m sitting on the edge of an Aruban beach, staring into the scattered variety of atmospheric blues in the sky and the indigoes of the Atlantic ocean.Legions of rockhoppers climb sideways — like any good crab does — from beneath the crashing shoreline, up toward the sun-bleached volcanic rock where the sun is generous.Above it, I look south onto the horizon. The Earth’s mild curvature frowns. But it’s a clear day, and Venezuela is visible, so I smile back. <a class="image
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