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Exactly What You Need

You can choose to go to bed early, opt out of that gathering, take another day to do the laundry, buy your meal through the drive-thru, spend time at the spa/salon/massage clinic and do it without guilt, or sin.
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she wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weenie, vintage cherry pop bikini

However, same goes if I was at the beach. I wore this two-piece all last summer. From New Brunswick, to the Picton shoreline. Swimming, is swimming, is swimming, is swimming. Less you dive in with your clothes on, I suggest you look away.
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the unwitting face on the shadow of society

We, as a society. We, as spectators. We, as the collective. We, as those who read the stories, hear the rumours, watch the news wheels. We have an opportunity to speak up, speak out.
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but where is the follow-through?

And where I am? Among the reeds of big ideas and little follow-through. It sometimes reeks like a metaphor for my life.
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how sunscreen became the only grad advice I ever needed

You are a part of history. You have graduated in a historical year of triumph, of uncertainty, of revolution. You are an integral cog in the wheelhouse of a generation who are narrating what we will read in our history books, and teach the children who come after you.
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so, you didn’t “utilize” the pandemic. now what?

You didn’t have to start a website, or sweep under the couch, or plant a new garden, or become a master of cooking to become the new human you are.
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waiting in antici…pation

I’ve not been on the phone with doctors so much in my life as I have the last two weeks. From life insurance (I almost had forgotten that non-smokers pay way less than when I was a pack-a-day) nurses calling to schedule health exams, to my family doctor asking about my Thyroid medication, suddenly my…
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“Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.” – Forrest Gump

As we venture into month three of slowing down, go with kindness. There’s a story behind every door of every home grappling with how to handle this next chapter of uncertainty.

