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Finding Freedom (opens the original)
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My friend Debra Silverman told me the most remarkable story about a man she was pen pals with, and wrote letters to every week for thirteen years. His name was Kenny, and he was serving a life sentence at San Quentin. She learned his story — how he had been wrongly convicted of kidnapping, was living out a life sentence in prison, but had never been able to afford his own legal representation, not in court, or in any of his parole hearings.Debra was telling Kenny’s story to a friend when they as
Change is Difficult (opens the original)
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A dream came true when I discovered that my neighbor Antony—taught Tai Chi.For years, I had carried a fantasy of living somewhere where I could simply walk out my front door and walk to a Tai Chi class. Something about the thrill of walking to exercise.So I asked Antony if he might consider teaching a class for our neighborhood; and to my delight, he said yes.Three mornings a week, I walked down the hill, passed by the smiling rock, and through the forested roads of Topanga to Antony’s house; wh
Learning Love’s Super Power (opens the original)
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Greetings dear humans… bringing you an except from The Little Book of Change. I fall in love for the first time my last year in college. It is delicious and absolutely worth waiting for. I remember the sweetness of falling in love. We call it, smooth, like butta’. We share a love for adventure and go on wilderness trips through Alaska, Asia, and crisscrossing the country.After three years, it becomes clear that while we love each other, we are not life partners. I could tell you it is because he
The Sound of Celebration (opens the original)
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It’s 5am and the sky is dark, but the air is filled with the call of the roosters and the harmonies of a church chorus down the road.I am waking to the sound of celebration.Lisa and I were driving the back roads of Va’vau yesterday when we got into a conversation about the weird world of normalization. We found ourselves talking about this strange time of normalization we are living in. I started thinking about how rarely we tell the stories of people who refuse what the culture has normalized—a
How Change Stole The Story (opens the original)
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Writing a book on Change was not on my to-do list.100 other things were. Actually: ONE REALLY BIG THING is on my to do list: finishing this novel. (It’s totally normal to take selfie’s with your manuscript… right?) <div c
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