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Sharing true-life stories, synchronicities, poetry and a look into my lifestyle of doing something new every day.

Newsletter · By Meredith Z. Avakian · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    Making Friends on Flights (opens the original)

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    For as long as I can remember, I have connected with and collected people during my everyday living, but these notable encounters have been magnetized whenever I travel, especially on international trips.When I say “collect,” it’s not in the creepy, serial killer kind of way, nor in a promiscuous body count kind of way. Rather, I have managed to have deep, meaningful conversations with some incredible human beings – simply upon first meeting them, oftentimes during just a brief and fleeting enco

  2. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    Transmuting Tough Talks to Process Poetry (opens the original)

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    Transmuting Tough Talks to Process Poetry“If your daughter puts her hands on mine, I told my daughter to beat her ass,” a mom said to me at camp drop-off last week, after our girls boarded the big yellow school bus.It’s definitely not what I had on my Bingo cards of things I’d expect to hear before heading to work for the day, or at all ever in life, let alone after only their first day at this camp.Perhaps more notably, this was my first time ever “meeting” this mother, so you can imagine my di

  3. Issue · Aug 5, 2026

    Confessions of a Highly Sensitive Person / Empath (opens the original)

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    Growing up, I felt different than my classmates and peers, but it wasn’t for the obvious reasons that stood out to me – my parents were divorced, we did not buy or wear name-brand clothes, my brother and I were left out of certain social circles, etc. It was quite literally something much deeper.However, it wasn’t until three months after becoming a mother, when I was 34 years old, that a colleague of mine asked me if I was familiar with the term “empath.” This was relatively new to me, so I did

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