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What is Something Beautiful? (opens the original)
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On Tuesdays and Fridays I wake up at 5am so I have time to drink coffee and do my morning rituals before my 5:45am strength training class. In addition to a short meditation, I spend a little time reading from one or two of my favorite books. I have a stack of many books — some old and some new — that I rotate through.This morning I read a Mary Oliver poem from her book Devotions. The poem, “Of the Empire” was written in 2008, but it feels very much like it was written today.We will be known as
Mythological Healing (opens the original)
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Yesterday I got home from travelling to Denmark and Iceland. For the first part of my trip I was with my mother and my two sisters. We explored Denmark, including the region where my great-grandparents were born. We spent time with our Danish cousins visiting family homes, gravesites, and farmlands. We saw the farmhouse where my great-grandmother was born and the house where her parents lived when they first married. We ate meals with Danish cousins ranging from age 8 to 83. Though Scandinavians
Meaningful Self-Forgetfulness (opens the original)
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When I lived in Spain for a year in 1989, my American friends and I taught ourselves to knit. We spent a lot of time on trains and at cafe tables in the Plaza Mayor drinking cafe con leche and little… Read more
I'm Starting to Get the Gist (opens the original)
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Last week I logged on to my patient portal to ask my primary care doctor a question about my estrogen prescription. On the list of possible providers that I could send a message to were: an endocrino… Read more
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