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His Hands Are Bigger Than Ours

His Hands Are Bigger Than Ours

Most of us, at some time or another in our lives, have offered a prayer. For example, back in our school days, we must have prayed to pass…
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A Love Of

A Love Of

Perched high above all, Floor-to-ceiling- windows tall, A city glistens bright, This desire of a home, always has been my delight A love…
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Reimaging Resolutions

Reimaging Resolutions

The last week of the year is one of my favorite times. As the magic and busyness of the holiday season begin to wind down, the last week of…
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Pause and Patience for Personal Growth

Pause and Patience for Personal Growth

In a book entitled The 3-Second Pause That Can Save a Morning and Spare Some Pain, Angel Chernoff describes an experience that we can all…
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Breathtaking

Breathtaking

I looked over at my wife. Our eyes met, and we took a collective deep breath before I rang the doorbell. This was going to be hard.
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The Smell of Criticism

The Smell of Criticism

Why is criticism so hard to accept?
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Why I Vote

Why I Vote

I care about voting. So much so that I advocate it for a living.
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Accept, Embrace, and Move On

Accept, Embrace, and Move On

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
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Quiver of Arrows: A Lesson on Unity

Quiver of Arrows: A Lesson on Unity

Isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has hit me hard. Being back at work as an educator, I feel the inner loss of connection…
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Forgiveness: A Reflection in Diwali and My Pathway for the New Year

Forgiveness: A Reflection in Diwali and My Pathway for the New Year

It is almost Diwali — one of my favorite times of the year! As the Hindu calendar year comes to a close, a New Year of promise beckons…
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Embracing Stress

Embracing Stress

“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” — Hans Selye
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Keep Calm and Yoga On

Keep Calm and Yoga On

Every day can seem like a blur when you have a million and one tasks to complete on your to-do list. Even with the restrictions of…
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Quarantined with My Monkey: My Rewiring Project

Quarantined with My Monkey: My Rewiring Project

My Monkey and The Rigged Algorithm
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In Your Own Hands

In Your Own Hands

On one side you have the honey bee. And on the other, a fly. Both fly here and there, but each has a very different approach.
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Live in the Now

Live in the Now

Have you ever caught yourself saying, “That was the best moment ever!” or “That was such a great day!” Why was that? What made that moment…
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Speed Limits

Speed Limits

The traffic in Atlanta is awful. Legendarily awful. In 2017, it was rated the eighth-worst in the world. Rush hour is miserable — starting…
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A Precedented Solution for an Unprecedented Time

A Precedented Solution for an Unprecedented Time

I finished packing my weekender with only the essentials for my red-eye flight out of Saint Louis to Miami, where I would be spending the…
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My Wish for our “New Normal”

My Wish for our “New Normal”

What an interesting flow of events the past few months have been. My journey of isolation has been a very eye-opening experience! At the…
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A Game of Cards

A Game of Cards

In life, it’s all about how you play your cards.
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Project Quarantine: Redefining Productivity

Project Quarantine: Redefining Productivity

Friday, March 13, 6:00 AM. I was sitting in the parking lot of the high school, getting ready to go into work. School districts in our…
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Baking a Better Me

Baking a Better Me

Having watched a no-way-you-can-mess-this-up-baking-bread tutorial online, I was recently motivated to escape the confinements of my tiny…
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Quaran-time, Why You Punish Me?

Quaran-time, Why You Punish Me?

I remember lying in my dorm room in the early 1990s listening and singing along to Time by the band Hootie and the Blowfish. It was a…
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A Solution for Hopelessness

A Solution for Hopelessness

At this moment, many of us are thinking the same thing — when will this end? The COVID-19 pandemic started on the other side of the planet…
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Facing the COVID-19 Crisis — Thoughts of Inspiration and Hope

Facing the COVID-19 Crisis — Thoughts of Inspiration and Hope

With the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, fears are rising around the globe as we now live in extremely uncertain times. We have seen…
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Begin at the end

Begin at the end

What DO we really want? What SHOULD we really want?
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