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How About a Little Compassion This Thanksgiving?

How About a Little Compassion This Thanksgiving?

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.  Without them, humanity cannot survive. — Dalai Lama I’ve been turning this quote over in my head the past few weeks, but it didn’t really hit home until Nico and I got into a super yucky argument last night. My 5-year-old is one of those sweet, kindhearted kids [...]

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Don’t Protect; Correct

Lost your way or fallen off the track? It happens to all of us, despite our best intentions. Made a decision that you now regret? Or maybe your decision was working fine–for a while.  But now something’s changed and you’re suddenly swirling in one giant, behemoth mess. Well, if you asked Susan Jeffers for advice, [...]

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Your One Wild and Precious Life

“We magnify the places where we fail and refuse to catch ourselves being good.”  That’s what Rachel wrote in her comment to the “Courage” post, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.  Why is it so easy to skewer ourselves (and others) but so much harder to focus on the positive? I’m sure there [...]

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