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The Runners and the Stayers (opens the original)
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My brother and I have often called my mother out on running. She is the kind of person who doesn’t stay still for very long. She has always been a mother with many balls in the air at once.Her brother, on the other hand, is very different. You might think this is the better way. Why wasn’t she more like him?ShareOne marriage. A lot of stability. The same home for the few decades that spanned his fi
Thoughts are not Facts (opens the original)
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Should we be anxious? Of course we should if that’s what we are.Most of us are saying, how can I get rid of this? I don’t want it, and we are probably right not to want it. Especially since it has the ability to completely floor us.ShareSome people just seem to be more anxious than most. We were sitting in our dance circle this past weekend and we asked our 12 people or so who had had a panic attack. Th
The Improvement Project (opens the original)
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No one really wants to get out of the way.It’s one of those nice-sounding ideas that will be good to get to sometime later. But now I have a job to do, and one way to name that work is the betterment project. There are more things than I can think of that could, and should, be better.Share<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/ima
Keep the mistake in the open for another moment (opens the original)
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Over the last few weeks I’ve made so many notes for things I want to write about that, to be honest, the list becomes overwhelming quite quickly. I can lose interest in writing when there are too many ideas. They start getting in the way of the most pressing thing: what is there to say now?So, ideas aside, this post will be about mistakes, and what a healthy relationship with them could look like.As for the other ideas, I already have a more ambitious post that I’ll release next week, with some
Why Write? (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately.Over the past five years I’ve run a number of writing groups, and there hasn’t been one where people haven’t struggled to write. Sometimes it is obvious. Someone says they don’t know what to write, or they sit looking at the page. Sometimes it is more subtle. There is suddenly something else to do, a distraction, a feeling that what they have written isn’t good enough, or a tendency to stay on the surface.<a class="button primary" href="https://ninew
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