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Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught […]
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Nurture the Spirit
The spirit concerns itself, after all else is considered, with the relationship between rudder and compass. Heart-warmed thinking from the soul informs, but despite the weather and the wind direction, the spirit steers the bark.
The Donkey lesson
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to
“…to strive to seek to find….and not to yield!
Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and
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soften
Over the Edge Through the disciplined precision of our efforts, we’ll come again and again to our edge””the difficult places beyond which we’ve previously been
For a New Beginning
For a New Beginning (John O’Donohue) In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly
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The Old Man and the Tee
The Old Man and The Tee On this page and for the several minutes it takes to read, our culture’s enduring obsession with youth is officially
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Honor – the real self-esteem
Friday, March 20, 2009 The Ruling Passion of the Noblest Minds by Alexander Green
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from Athena
Ode To The Onion Pablo Neruda Onion, luminous flask, your beauty formed petal by petal, crystal scales expanded you and in the secrecy
The original anti-aging medicine
Faust: This senseless witchcraft sickens and disgusts me – and sayest thou that I shall recruit life’s powers, here in this loathsome den of filthy
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Faust before dealing with the devil (can you blame him?)
Everything fails me – every thing – These instruments, do they not all Mock me? Lathe, cylinder, and ring, And cog and wheel – in
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