Life, hope, lifestyle and everything beautiful
Esta mañana desperté recordando a mi abuelo. Un hombre lleno de vida, fuerte, cabezota, sabio, que no se resignaba a vivir una vida de desencanto, profesor, pintor, poeta, escritor y luchador. Ahora que no está, hoy me doy cuenta de cuán sabio era y de todo lo que tenemos en común. Quizá no sea la […]
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It wasn’t planned. I always enjoyed genuine friendships and I have been blessed to attract the best crop. In love, I have failed miserably, but in friendships I’ve gotten straight A’s and they have become my lifeboats.
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Throughout our lives, hopefully, we collect happy moments, some small, some big. The latter, which we may consider the happiest may remain in our memory forever unless they become overshadowed by unfortunate events and then gone, forgotten and replaced by others. I have one I distinctly remember and it was grand. I hadn’t felt so much […]
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This is what happens to all of us if we allow ourselves to leave behind the “lessons” and begin to rise after we’ve fallen.
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Now, when I’m faced with some sort of hardship since my friend passed, I always go back to that time when he slipped away in my hands. Nothing, after that, can be as bad. I use this “loss” to gauge many of my feelings now, whether it be anger, sadness or loneliness. “It could be worse, I […]
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As I indulged in my self-destructive habit out on the porch last night, I thought to myself if this was to be my last. We really never know. So, I enjoyed my cigarette thinking; Shouldn’t we live with this frame of mind? Life can take a turn at any moment.
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Resilience is the human capacity to adapt to circumstances in the face of grief or adversity, whether coping with the loss of a loved one, a layoff, a disease, a divorce, or any emotionally disrupting event. It is resilience that enables us to pick ourselves up and go on with our lives despite the pain. […]
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In the depth of my soul I fear I’m not yet cured of the malady of “life.” We all have to battle some malady, mine is my own, tailored to fit. Just when I think the dust has settled, here comes another wind of change, unsettling the comfort of normalcy.
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Leather bags come in all types of leather, but there are different quality leather bags. Just because it says leather, doesn’t mean that the grain is good or that it will age gracefully.
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You: I’m actually happy right now! Life: Wait a second! And this is how it was for me in late January and to boot, on January 13th. Things went south and then south again… But I was able somehow to keep it together by walking north.
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