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Retrospect

How clear the lens of retrospect illuminates the distant past, and brings in focus now, so fast, foolish acts we’d rather neglect. It is not always a kindness, this sharpness of review; one can easily misconstrue an earlier bliss as … Continue reading

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Tending a Garden

The soul is a garden that needs tending: deadheads to be snipped away, trees to trim, stray weeds to remove, fence that needs mending, measuring, minding each tendril and limb. Yet what will thrive, and what withers and dies, regardless … Continue reading

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