Category: General Musings
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In The Other Eyes
I was sitting in the window seat on a direct flight from Istanbul to Chicago, about halfway through 28 hours of traveling home from an exhausting trip. I felt grimy, I desperately needed to brush my teeth, and I would gladly have whined to anyone who would listen about how tired I was and how three hours…
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My Own Reminder
Tonight I accidentally shattered a bottle of wine on the steps of a church in Tbilisi, Georgia. I never thought I would say that sentence. Yesterday I had pizza with a girl who grew up in a village where soldiers kidnapping children for ransom and women for wives is still a frequent occurrence. I really…
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Being Mediocre
“I know people say that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. But I also think that something can be worth doing at all, even if you can’t do it well.” – My Boss I don’t like doing things I’m not good at. That does not mean I don’t like trying new things…
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The Shrinks
I pull into the medical center parking lot, and stop in the last empty parking spot. The car parked in front of me is impossible to ignore. Flaming red, with a starting ticket price of $70,000 (yes, I Googled it, so what?) you could almost just roll your eyes and move on, except for the vanity…
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Life is full of decisions, both the kinds we make individually and decisions others make. Because of the sheer volume of choices required in order to stay alive and the immense number of forces outside our control, it is not actually possible to make wise and positive decisions all the time. In other words: not all our decisions…