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Ellen Vrana

An Implacable Call for Kindness

How to summon kindness in our individualistic world

Mar 11, 2019

An Implacable Call for Kindness

Mar 11, 2019

The First Time Holding My Daughter

After years of holding nothing but hope.

Jan 31, 2019

The First Time Holding My Daughter

Jan 31, 2019

The Alienation We Feel When We Return Home

Returning home as adults we find it different, changed, not what we sought. It can feel alienating, we use memory to ease the way.

Jan 26, 2019

The Alienation We Feel When We Return Home

Jan 26, 2019

What is a Wall, After All?

A meditation on walls: how they are formed, how they function, and how they affect us as they divide our space.

Jan 15, 2019

What is a Wall, After All?

Jan 15, 2019

Middle-Aged Woman on a Day-Out

I was having my small toenail filed when she entered the salon. The bell over the door dinged, announcing a middle-aged woman on a day out.

Mar 9, 2017

Middle-Aged Woman on a Day-Out

Mar 9, 2017

All the Things We Are Not

There are many things we are not, but we are, indeed, something wonderful.

Mar 4, 2017

All the Things We Are Not

Mar 4, 2017

Cold Cuts

Change, adapt, adjust and grow — it’s what humans do. A short story.

Feb 21, 2017

Cold Cuts

Feb 21, 2017

The Knock of Silence: Hearing the Things That Matter and Knowing When to Let Them In

Silence is not the absence of noise, it is the space to listen.

Feb 1, 2017

The Knock of Silence: Hearing the Things That Matter and Knowing When to Let Them In

Feb 1, 2017

Don’t Let the Neighbors Hear

A short story about judgment and truth.

Jan 18, 2017

Don’t Let the Neighbors Hear

Jan 18, 2017

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Calmly We Walk Through This December Week

A few thoughts to close out the year.

Dec 30, 2016

Calmly We Walk Through This December Week

Dec 30, 2016

Ellen Vrana

Ellen Vrana

Writer, The Examined Life. Wisdom, writings and readings focused on human commonalities. www.theexaminedlife.org

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